Example sentences of "[prep] be left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tweedie said that , at present , it was all too easy for users to be left unaware of the total assets employed in a business , and its overall funding . |
| 2 | It divides the area into inner and outer zones , with the central core of 6,000 sq km to be left undisturbed as an ecological park , and the second inner zone scheduled for logging and replanting . |
| 3 | It is essential to use proper secure fittings especially if the unit is to be left unattended . |
| 4 | This is extremely useful if the office has to be left unattended for any period of time . |
| 5 | Whenever your computer is going to be left unattended for some time simply run Blaze . |
| 6 | The feeling is growing that we should get our act together smartly if we are not to be left gongless at the end of a less deserving queue . |
| 7 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 8 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 9 | Frequently the tower had to be left unfinished or left on the drawing-board , awaiting more funds . |
| 10 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 11 | The door would have to be left ajar for air and that might alert passers-by . |
| 12 | The water damaged the plaintiff 's house and caused it to be left empty . |
| 13 | ( The same , actually , is true of a press campaign , but there is no reason to simplify , since the appearance of an ad in a particular paper at a particular time is determined , whereas the actual TV buying pattern needs to be left flexible . ) |
| 14 | Nevertheless , like his predecessors , Ethelbald [ q.v. ] and Offa , he had problems with the church , which was too powerful to be left uncontrolled , and Alcuin eventually felt obliged to commiserate with the abbess Æthelburga , Offa 's daughter , because ecclesiastics were ruled by tyrants not kings . |
| 15 | When the battery is first connected , the buzzer may sound if Q happens to be left high ( i.e. set ) due to the race condition mentioned earlier . |
| 16 | Asked to be left alone with the glass for a while . |
| 17 | At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies . |
| 18 | It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty , of overwork , of perpetual near-incarceration , of eternal nagging demands , and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire . |
| 19 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 20 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 21 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 22 | However some elderly people , by contrast , have an acute wish to be left alone to die in their own surroundings with the minimum of attention . |
| 23 | We want to be left alone . |
| 24 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 25 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 26 | To be left alone on a chain is heartbreaking , literally . |
| 27 | ‘ That has to be left alone … ’ |
| 28 | Dent was happy to be left alone . |
| 29 | A fundamental part of it has to be this recognition : animals have the right to be left alone . |
| 30 | Red , oedematous swelling ; burning and stinging pains ; face puffed and pitted ; swollen eyelids ; can not bear to be left alone ; very sensitive to touch or pressure ; sweat comes and goes . |