Example sentences of "be left [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament has now recognised that local authorities should be left to judge for themselves what local legislation is desirable , but in a tidying-up process all powers under local Acts in force on 1st April 1974 which were not preserved by subsequent general or local legislation automatically expired at the end of 1984 . |
| 2 | It must not brown , but should be left to bubble for a few seconds before being removed from the heat and left to settle . |
| 3 | However , as a matter of principle and good airmanship , at least one full wing-span of clearance should always be left to allow for inadvertent drifting or swinging during landings . |
| 4 | It should be left to set for up to six or eight hours |
| 5 | And women are as likely as not to be left to fend for themselves , living crowded into one room with all the children and having to work all night sewing or cleaning to make ends meet . |
| 6 | that it is no good thing for any state to be involved in redistributive welfare policies — in which case the periphery must presumably be left to fend for itself . |
| 7 | He says that it will almost certainly be left to fend for itself , seeking business abroad . |
| 8 | The noodles are very thin and simply require boiling water to be poured over them and should then be left to steep for 3–4min . |
| 9 | If either or both these facilities close , the village shop may well be left to cater for only the poor , the old and the immobile , and since the shop on its low turnover has to charge high prices , these people are doubly disadvantaged ( Harman , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 11 | The logic of an overall national agreement could almost be left to speak for itself though the conciliation board campaign itself was not formally abandoned until the outbreak of war in August 1914 , when the union immediately declared a truce in all its disputes with the Federation . |
| 12 | Yet if they press home their advantage of games in hand , they will overtake Blackburn , who have shown a staggering decline recently and could be left to fight for a play-off place . |
| 13 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 14 | Readers are left to judge for themselves who did more for the Javanese people . |
| 15 | Now the Warsaw pact has completely dissolved itself , so the experts in SHAPE headquarters at NATO are left looking for a role for NATO to perform . |
| 16 | As its days go by , we are left to imagine for ourselves Sarah 's anxiety . |
| 17 | In general we are left to care for our own bodies , and those of younger members of the family . |
| 18 | Once removed from the courte bouillon , the fillets are left to rest for four minutes . |
| 19 | The highly infectious disease can spread rapidly when unprotected dogs come into contact with those infected , frequently these are strays which have been left to fenmd for themselves . |
| 20 | Residential workers have been left to care for troubled young people just as professional interest in residential communities was declining . |
| 21 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 22 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 23 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 24 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes for an emergency patient to be admitted , but Union officials say security is sloppy . |
| 25 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 26 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 27 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 28 | It was a male MP who first drew attention to this unlikely cause for concern : he noticed , on a night out , that when men went to the toilet , it took just a minute or so , while women were left queuing for what seemed like hours . |
| 29 | As a result children were left waiting for buses which did n't arrive . |
| 30 | Would their behaviour alter dramatically if they were left to hunt for food in the wild ? |