Example sentences of "be left over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 2 | This belt , named after Kuiper who suggested it would be left over from the formation of the planets , has been much-discussed as a possible source of short-period comets . |
| 3 | Much of the stocks are left over from the campaigns conducted against locusts and mosquitoes two decades ago . |
| 4 | The chemicals , including substances such as DDT , long banned in the rest of Germany , as well as formulations never subject to safety testing in the West , are left over from the pre-unification production of East German industries . |
| 5 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 6 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 7 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 8 | It is possible the explosives were left over from the Deal attack . |
| 9 | Second World War gas masks , tin helmets and posters on treating burns and what to do with incendiary bombs were left over from the days when each factory had a fire watch and some even had a home guard . |
| 10 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |
| 11 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 12 | ‘ You may take whatever is left over at the end of each day . |
| 13 | It 's left over from the War . |