Example sentences of "[coord] be left " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 2 | Another plan is for the new partners to be admitted merely on undertaking to contribute their share of the partnership capital , and this may either be raised by borrowing from a bank or insurance company ( with periodic repayments ) or be left to be paid over a period of years by deduction from their share of the profits . |
| 3 | When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind . |
| 4 | The ensuing chaos was almost life-threatening and the timid always ran the risk of reboarding without food or being left behind when the train steamed out . |
| 5 | The aim of all these procedures is to ensure that no patient arrives home without the drugs or equipment needed or is left without adequate care and support . |
| 6 | The movie might have been truer to the actor if Hoffman had rejected retaliation and been left with physical ruin and intact theorems . ’ |
| 7 | And been left in the ocean to rot . |
| 8 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 9 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 10 | Factors which undoubtedly influence judgments of seriousness , such as the existence of provocation , or the difference between premeditated and impulsive violence , are accorded no legal significance and are left to the sentencing stage . |
| 11 | Pink and white lavatera pop up from seed and are left to flourish if they are in the right places . |
| 12 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 13 | The flies are allowed to settle on the surface and are left to their own devices . |
| 14 | But because they are listed , many of the more badly deteriorated buildings and terraces can not be demolished and rebuilt with more modern structures — and are left empty , because the zoo does n't have the funds available to repair them . |
| 15 | Many of course die , but those who survive eventually lose most of the colour and are left speckled , rather than with the definite lines of colour you will find in shop tanks . |
| 16 | The books have been supplied by the library and are left outside the canteen by members of the library where they can be taken in exchange for a small donation . |
| 17 | Ma'am , I have been reading my Bible and am left in no doubt that I have sinned and am paying the just penalty for sin and I repent strongly but to no avail as yet . |
| 18 | I use a lot of Nutrafin tubifex in 85gm or 135 gm sizes , and am left with nice-sized containers with screw tops . |
| 19 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
| 20 | Often one of them would faint and be left prostrate until the end . |
| 21 | If you 've taken down a door leading from hall to living room , or kitchen to dining room , you may be lucky and be left with interesting architrave mouldings around doorways , but if they 're plain modern ones , you 'll probably rip them out with the door . |
| 22 | It was too much , at sixty-three , too much to lose her husband and be left with the son who was the least favourite of her three children , and this dreadful marriage . |
| 23 | The poor player might not realise that carrying the crowbar is the key to the problem , and be left wondering why his input sometimes works and sometimes does n't . |
| 24 | It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain . |
| 25 | On the other hand , was the local authority segment of higher education constantly to lose its premier institutions to the universities , and be left with a permanently subordinate pattern of further education colleges doing a proportion of advanced work ? . |
| 26 | The audience will stay interested and be left wanting to see more . |
| 27 | We took the opportunity to drive the outgoing model while we had the new one and were left in no doubt about which was the driver 's car . |
| 28 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 29 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 30 | Those who could produce evidence of ‘ character , associations and loyalty ’ were placed in category C and were left to their own devices , at least for the time being . |