Example sentences of "have left " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 2 | But this , too , is upper-class , this recital of exotic place-names — so often the spoor of the doughty , ascetic , astringent English traveller who has left his privileges behind . |
| 3 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 4 | Roth has left off with his mythologising fury — and his memoir lets us know that the benefits that come to the writer who tries , or even seems , to stick to the facts may amount to something more than those of hindsight . |
| 5 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 6 | ROGER Flanagan , former sales and marketing director for equipment supplier Masters & Andren , has left the company to concentrate on his own consultancy GP Consultants . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house . |
| 8 | If a cable break occurs just after the glider has left the ground , care must be taken not to overdo the lowering of the nose and fly into the ground . |
| 9 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 10 | The cable has left Britain at Lowestoft , a North Sea cable bound for Germany . |
| 11 | This situation has left literature teachers with the sense that compared with their colleagues they are not masters in their own house , since they are dependent for their material on a product manufactured elsewhere by shifty and unreliable suppliers . |
| 12 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
| 13 | The dispute has left the bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit in , at least temporary , tatters . |
| 14 | THE information technology revolution has left large swaths of rural Britain untouched . |
| 15 | AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement . |
| 16 | However , there are doubts about how much of the Deloitte client list will be left intact once it has left the international organisation . |
| 17 | It has left one of my downstairs windows stranded next door with a Cyclopean view of the neighbours , occasional week-enders , sun-bathing on their colourful suites of beach furniture . |
| 18 | Mrs Postance recorded 29 governors ' meetings between November last year and May — a sequence of events that has left parents on the governing body reeling from an onslaught of Key Stages and Attainment Targets . |
| 19 | They say help is needed to combat the poverty that has left peasants growing traditional crops in many parts of Latin America unable to survive . |
| 20 | At the age of 29 , Durie must be wondering how much longer she has left to get hooked on that habit which she toyed with briefly six years ago when she reached the lofty heights of the world 's top five . |
| 21 | An Irish poet not going gentle into that good night : Peter Dunn tells the bizarre tale of how family feuding , jealousy and assorted shenanigans has left Patrick Kavanagh with two graves |
| 22 | The loss of Steve Hodge with hamstring trouble 24 hours after the withdrawal of John Barnes , has left England short of cover on the flanks , but Robson again decided against summoning a replacement . |
| 23 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
| 24 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 25 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 26 | ‘ This primitive morality was refined by Christianity ; but the passing of Christianity has left only the refinement without the morality … |
| 27 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 28 | With the possible exception of Baldwin in 1937 no Prime Minister in the twentieth century has left office willingly and on a high note . |
| 29 | The impact of such a major reversal has left an indelible mark on Haslam 's memory . |
| 30 | Each of these visions has left its own particular legacy , some transparently more successful than others , but all falling short of their original promise . |