Example sentences of "[being] left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1984-88 , 35 university law departments lost 127 staff , including nine professors , representing around a quarter of the total number of posts , while recruitment has become increasingly difficult , with some commercial law posts being left vacant because no suitable candidates can be found . |
| 2 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 3 | It is the fear of being abandoned — of being left helpless and alone while still alive — of burdening relatives beyond endurance — of awful pain that comes when no help is at hand . |
| 4 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 5 | In Ramsden v IRC ( 1957 ) 37 TC 619 , it was held that if A sold property to B with the sale price being left outstanding that could not be treated as a loan within s739(4) . |
| 6 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 7 | EVERY DAY around 2,500 of AEA 's incoming telephone calls are being left unanswered . |
| 8 | So does his use of omens and prophecies — a feature of The Lord of the Rings which may furthermore seem to deny the idea of free will being left intact by the forces of providence . |
| 9 | Harking back to the ‘ terrible Winter of Discontent ’ under the last Labour government , the 10-minute film recalled patients being turned away from hospitals , rubbish going uncollected and the dead being left unburied . |
| 10 | The other crab , rather than being left homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable to predators , instantly jumped into the broken shell . |
| 11 | In 1419 the town suffered greatly because of the Hussite Wars , with many of the churches being destroyed and their contents damaged or the churches merely being left incomplete . |
| 12 | Figure 4.11 ( cont. ) ( b ) Same data as Figure 4.11(a) but with countries without data being left blank . |
| 13 | This proposes , in essence , that Iraq should get out of Kuwait straightaway in return for being left alone afterwards . |
| 14 | With this in mind , there is a project at one site in the Cotswolds where a population of badgers known to be infected with bovine TB is being left alone to see what happens to the badgers and also to herds of cattle in the area . |
| 15 | But being left alone was so horrible too . |
| 16 | And he could n't bear the thought of her being left alone with them , when he was killed . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , ’ she went on , ‘ I ca n't imagine … when Karen … that 's her name , by the way … goes out , being left alone … ’ |
| 18 | 'l I have already emphasised the importance of control and independence as factors in the anorexic process , so I shall now quote Erikson to illustrate the relation between emptiness and being left alone , and the relevance of both to anorexia nervosa : |
| 19 | A significant aspect to consider is the vulnerability of the client to being left alone , and unattended . |
| 20 | Acceptance of the offer of employment in the new location would have meant her mother being left alone for periods of seven or more hours as Mrs Cahuac would not be able to check on her at lunchtimes as she was able to do while working in Hackney . |
| 21 | I do n't mind being left alone . ’ |
| 22 | Many children , particularly younger ones , develop anxieties about the possible loss or disappearance of their remaining parent and may show clinging behaviour or fear of being left alone . |
| 23 | Asking mothers to discuss whether or not their babies notice being on their own generated unfamiliar varieties of parental attitudes to children being left alone ( for instance , to sleep in the day ) or a report of the amount of time infants are likely to spend alone . |
| 24 | Being left alone for a while might have a calming effect . |
| 25 | Innovators therefore have a good chance of being left alone for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
| 27 | Other woods , especially those which are important as nature-conservation sites , are simply being left alone so that the woodland plants , insects and birds can recolonise naturally . |
| 28 | This is perhaps one of the most common babysitting standbys and can work out well , if you know the teenager to be responsible and she 's confident when it comes to being left alone with children . |
| 29 | lord justice beldam dissenting observed it would have taken but a moment to move the child from danger before being left alone . |
| 30 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |