Example sentences of "has been left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed insider accounts have largely consisted of bland reminiscences in the style of ‘ my greatest arrests and cases ’ and it has been left to investigative journalism to redress some unacceptable police activity , by calling attention to the limits and abuses of police authority , power , and accountability . |
| 2 | Dostoevsky 's home-made word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment ; it has been left behind ( unlike the mind that coined it ) in the much more theoretical Notes from Underground . |
| 3 | ‘ ALASTAIR MORTON is terrific at crisis management , but he is no good when it comes to running a settled organisation , ’ says one of those who has been left , somewhat bruised , along the wayside of Mr Morton 's whirlwind career . |
| 4 | Until now , under this Government , everything has been left to the hazards of private development and the initiative of county councils . |
| 5 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 6 | But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar . |
| 7 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 8 | Equally intriguing will be the line-out performance of the young London Irish lock , Neil Francis , who has been left out of the current Ireland squad . |
| 9 | Dodie Penalosa from the Philippines , who challenges Dave McAuley for the International Boxing Federation 's flyweight title at Wembley Arena tonight , suffered from poliomyelitis when he was a child and has been left with a weak left leg and restricted mobility . |
| 10 | Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious . |
| 11 | TIM HARRIS , the national professional road-race champion who has been left out in the cold by British team sponsors , will be basking in Spanish sunshine next year , writes Graham Snowdon . |
| 12 | As the commercial whaling industry has declined throughout most of the world , Greenland has been left with one of the highest catches of whales and small cetaceans . |
| 13 | Everything else is without importance from the Creator 's point of view , and is only a play of permutations and combinations within a general program which is not a prophetic anticipation of the future but merely sets the limits of possibilities within which all power of decision has been left to chance . |
| 14 | ‘ As for Neighbours there is always the possibility I could go back to it , the door has been left open for Charlene to reappear at any time . |
| 15 | It is thanks to the emigres that in America and Europe ballet has been on the move all century ; in Russia itself , it has been left in a museum . |
| 16 | Such is the bewildering complexity of sectarian politics in Northern Ireland that Mr Vitty — who draws his support from the gut Loyalist working class housing estates on the eastern outskirts of Belfast — has been left in the lurch by the Official Unionist Party despite campaigning on a United Unionist ticket . |
| 17 | But while Pearce might be irreplaceable for Forest , United have learnt to live without Robson , whose likely replacement at Wembley is Neil Webb , the former Forest midfielder who has been left out of United 's last three games . |
| 18 | Rogaan , despite consistently good performances for former club Celtic and Sunderland , has been left out by manager Billy Bingham since the European Championship match with Yugoslavia in Belgrade a year ago for what he called a ‘ breach of discipline ’ — arguing with a linesman . |
| 19 | The Russian America 's Cup yacht , Age of Russia , which has been left stranded in San Diego , could be destroyed without ever being launched , let alone raced . |
| 20 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 21 | The National Trust has been left the largest bequest in its history by Mrs Helena Levy , the widow of leading philanthropist , Kenneth Levy . |
| 22 | In over 30% of domestic burglaries , the burglar simply walks in without using any force because a window or door has been left open . |
| 23 | But all too often , they do n't have to use force to get into a house because a door or window has been left open . |
| 24 | Nothing has been left out , from the temperature in the staff locker room ( at 16°C , 5°C less than that in the examination rooms ) to the number of changes of air per hour in the patients ' lavatories ( two ! ) . |
| 25 | If a car has been left at the chapel , a more direct way to it may be made by turning down into the valley from Outrake Foot . |
| 26 | The same readiness to supplement the wording of an institution is also found , although not as early as the Republic : Ulpian discusses cases in which the esto of heres esto has been left out , or even the whole expression . |
| 27 | In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out . |
| 28 | If we turn to trusts we find Valens stating that if maintenance has been left by trust to freedmen without a sum being stated , then first of all the amounts usually paid by the deceased are to be taken into account , then his bequests to those of the same class , and failing these his assets and intimacy with the beneficiaries are to be considered . |
| 29 | Here ( as in the previous case ) A is the owner of whatever sum he has been left ( a legacy , for instance , of ten thousand denarii ) , but B has a claim in trust against A : he can sue A for performance . |
| 30 | If something has been left for construction of a building for a town , the late emperor Marcus and Lucius Verus replied to Procula by rescript that each heir was liable for the whole . |