Example sentences of "[vb past] be left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Guardian report of June 13 to the effect that underground bunkers containing conventional and nuclear weapons had been left unattended at Clark produced denials from US service sources and the Philippine government . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the emphasis was on labour-intensive industries such as textiles and consumer electronics to employ the thousands of workers who had been left redundant by the withdrawal of the British . |
| 3 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
| 4 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 5 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 6 | Republican candidate Thomas Ewing on July 2 secure election to the House of Representatives seat for Illinois which had been left vacant by the appointment , confirmed in March , of Edward Madigan as Secretary for Agriculture . |
| 7 | Although the 1990 unification treaty had confirmed Berlin as the German capital , the issue of whether the organs of government located in Bonn should move to Berlin had been left unresolved [ see pp. 37832 ; 37661 ] . |
| 8 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 9 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 10 | And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon . |
| 11 | Not one single thing she had brought with her had been left untouched . |
| 12 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 13 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 14 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 15 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 16 | And she had been left bereft , broken-hearted . |
| 17 | A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth , and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands . |
| 18 | East German companies , he said , suffering the adverse effects of German economic union , had defaulted on import contracts worth 230 million roubles for vehicles , machinery , chemical products and raw materials ; other contracts had been left uncompleted and tourism agreements unfulfilled . |
| 19 | His mother Elizabeth said debris lying around the park was more dangerous than if the area under the play equipment had been left grassed . |
| 20 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 21 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 22 | Ever since that night when , with their father away inspecting a distant building site , they had been left alone in the house for the first time , and the ‘ broth ’ had decided to wreak mayhem . |
| 23 | So many nights when she had been left alone . |
| 24 | Only dimly , when the jar began to return to him more rapidly , did he realize he had been left alone with the mute pholy , and by then the women had begun striking their gongs and drums in a faster rhythm . |
| 25 | ‘ I heard on Wednesday from a neighbour that she had been left alone by her mother who had gone to Spain . |
| 26 | Gemma had been left alone at home in Hammersmith , west London . |
| 27 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 28 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , had been left alone when a friend went home . |
| 29 | The schoolhouses had been left empty in the Revolution , and then ransacked by peasants , as the Bolshevik investigators had noticed on their way to Nikol'skaia . |
| 30 | Everyone else had grabbed seats at the back and , when it was too late , George suddenly realized why the particular seats they had chosen had been left empty . |