Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] left [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less was left to the vagaries of the opera-house system , and the creators stood more chance of seeing their ideas realised faithfully . |
| 2 | They climbed into their chauffeured car and were whisked away to heaven knew where , and I thought frustratedly about time and the little of it there was left in Winnipeg . |
| 3 | On 10 February 1992 , at the Snaresbrook Crown Court , the appellant pleaded not guilty to an indictment containing four counts which ultimately were left to the jury . |
| 4 | At the end of it all little was left for the tradesmen who had resorted to the complicated machinery . |
| 5 | By the end of the sixteenth century , in the central provinces little was left of the ‘ black ’ lands owned nominally by the State and inhabited by peasants owing dues only to the Crown . |