Example sentences of "could not be left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might see dangers and difficulties in discussing reunification , but it could not be left off the agenda . |
| 2 | Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors . |
| 3 | He could not be left alone , as he was not safe . |
| 4 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 5 | Market-led regeneration strategies may , in any case , necessitate rather more of a developmental and rather less of a political stance : there is the view that the renewal of London 's Docklands raised issues of national significance that could not be left solely to the boroughs concerned . |
| 6 | Moreover , the Commission considered that the social benefits that would accrue from economic developments arising from the internal market could not be left to chance . |
| 7 | Their farms could not be left unattended at this crucial time . |
| 8 | Such matters , trivial as they might seem to us , could not be left by even the most negligent monarch wholly to others . |
| 9 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |
| 10 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
| 11 | The punishment of the enemies and the traitors of the working class , it was alleged , was the sole right of the working class and could not be left to the processes of natural degeneration . |
| 12 | And yet this matter of the battle at Pilleth could not be left unanswered , for the sake of his tenure . |
| 13 | Talks in July had resulted in stalemate , with the Slovak side insisting that the power station could not be left in its unfinished state and rejecting the Hungarian proposal to construct instead a gas power station on Slovak territory . |
| 14 | A responsible , hard-working and disciplined work-force was required for the exacting demands of agriculture ; and these were character traits of such importance and of such a basic nature that their instilling could not be left entirely until puberty and initiation . |
| 15 | For this reason taxes were imposed upon conveyances , and until 1540 freehold estates could not be left by will … |
| 16 | ‘ Climber ’ editor Peter Evans decided he could n't be left out … |
| 17 | A little matter that could n't be left . |
| 18 | Brückner could n't be left alive with that knowledge . |
| 19 | That meant Mother had to quit her dressmaking career since Aunt Bessie could n't be left alone afterwards . |
| 20 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |