Example sentences of "[noun] left on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deserted by Hogg 's senior legal colleagues on the Conservative benches , and with a strong challenge mounted by the libertarian left on the Government side , the clause looked in danger . |
| 2 | Alternatively , it could mean that the sources were more numerous in the past , at the time that the radio waves left on their journey to us , than they are now . |
| 3 | Bear left on road beyond for 400 yds , until reaching minor road on left at house called The Old Turnpike . |
| 4 | Bear left on the forestry track to the road below Pen Rhiw . |
| 5 | Checks on weeded volumes or on the physical quality of stock left on the shelves are reasonably easy to apply . |
| 6 | A Department of Transport spokesman said : ‘ The trippers wanted the booze left on the roadside so they could come back for it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll keep Roy because he 's got 18 months left on his contract . |
| 8 | Keane has 18 months left on his contract and the speculation does not do the game any good . ’ |
| 9 | a powdering effect left on the surface of the paper after the ink has failed to dry satisfactorily due to a fault in printing . |
| 10 | They often appear in the form of socks and underwear left on the bedroom floor , lawn-mower left out in the rain , toilet seat left up , or bank account overdrawn . |
| 11 | Shifting my weight left on the layoff to get a better grip I pulled again . |
| 12 | Peter Hough ran through his investigation into a photograph of what appears to be an alien clutching an intergalactic attaché case on Ilkley Moor in a slide show which was like a conceptual exercise in boredom ( ‘ Here 's a slide of the letter I sent asking to hire a Geiger counter to search for radioactive traces left on the moor by the alien … |
| 13 | And she 'd got two little rings of carrots left on her plate . |
| 14 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 15 | Agents and ambassadors left on the down shuttle , frantically covering their tracks . |
| 16 | We got to the water and put him out but he had virtually no clothing left on his back , it was all burnt away . ’ |
| 17 | As soon as A's and B's deliveries have both been made , C's 15 cwt. become ascertained by exhaustion , since it is then possible to say that all the potatoes left on the lorry are destined for C. Now suppose that before the lorry is despatched , C sells his 15 cwt. to B and arranges with S that the lorry shall drop 40 cwt. to B in Bristol . |
| 18 | ( I had my doubts after seeing the squashy mess left on the table where he 'd sat . ) |
| 19 | Vellayati left on May 14 for a visit to Malaysia , Australia and New Zealand , reporting on May 22 that agreement had been reached with Australia to co-operate on chemical disarmament . |
| 20 | The white berries are obtained by rubbing the reddish-black skin from peppercorns left on the vine until they are ripe . |
| 21 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 22 | The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box ! |
| 23 | Work left on unattended open display needs to be visited regularly to check on wear and tear or even sabotage by children loyal to another school ! |
| 24 | These ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painters , as the critic David Sylvester dubbed them in 1954 , owing to their preference for painting not tasteful still lifes but the debris left on the kitchen table or the image of a child being bathed in a sink , enjoyed overnight success . |
| 25 | Amongst the casualties left on the field by the fleeing enemy was a Northumberland squire named Foster , who had been stunned when his horse toppled on him but not seriously injured . |
| 26 | But you were still a little boy left on your own . |
| 27 | With seamers John Maguire and Craig Wilkinson following Simpson out of Grace Road , Alan Mullally is the only Australian left on the staff , and Mr Turner revealed : ‘ there is now a strong hope that his fitness problems can be spoken of in the past tense . |
| 28 | Only the off flounder left on the north bank at Portmadoc with no reports from the estuary . |
| 29 | It is said that Colman 's Mustard made their money from the amount of mustard left on the plate . |
| 30 | But of the remaining remote and unspoilt places left on earth many can only be reached on foot , or with the help of pack animals . |