Example sentences of "is left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some schools will stipulate a number of Shakespearean speeches from which you may select , but in the main the choice of work is left entirely to you . |
| 2 | The thick porridgy liquid is left for several hours while the natural sugars in the malt dissolve into the liquor . |
| 3 | But as long as the finished beer is left to brew naturally and is free from such unnatural processes as chilling , filtering and pasteurisation , the end result is traditional draught beer , known in the industry as ‘ cask conditioned beer ’ and more popularly as … real ale . |
| 4 | It can also become pitted if it is left soaking overnight . |
| 5 | But the decision about whether or not to fly is left to you , the pilot . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it is all too easy for both people to decide to let go at the same moment , so that no one is left holding a wing-tip . |
| 7 | Many field landing accidents occur because the initial decision to choose a field is left far too late . |
| 8 | Nothing is left to chance . |
| 9 | When , for example , a subject fitted with scalp electrodes over the auditory cortex is played a series of brief clicks through headphones and the EEG following each click is averaged so that random fluctuations cancel each other out , what is left is a systematic but complex pattern of electrical waves which is caused by the click in the same way that the waves on the surface of a pond are caused by dropping a pebble into it . |
| 10 | So one is left with the impossible task of explaining why a perfectly respectable causal chain should ‘ go mental ’ for a while and then , recovering its non-senses , should return to being purely physical . |
| 11 | The name of the funeral director can then be kept in a safe place with other important documents , such as the Will , so that whoever is left to deal with the situation can contact the funeral director . |
| 12 | Now that all three passenger sectors prefer unit trains to the traditional combination of locomotive and coaches , the Railfreight sector is left as the prime user of diesel locomotives . |
| 13 | So , very little pre-nationalisation influence is left on our increasingly standardised system . |
| 14 | The existing wiring is left in place , and a length of three-core and earth lighting cable is run from the existing light switch ( which must be two-way ) to a new two-way light switch . |
| 15 | In reality , if your pet is left with a small , beautifully-sutured wound , then all credit must go the skill of your veterinary surgeon and it 's worth remembering that , for the time and skill required , spaying is a very cheap and justifiable operation . |
| 16 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 17 | If Cultural Studies goes its own way , what happens to what is left ? |
| 18 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |
| 19 | and God knows what else is left of our London |
| 20 | Tennis : Lendl is left in the clear by Becker 's withdrawal |
| 21 | Unable to show his client or the Home Secretary or any of the other protagonists , Edgeworth is left with Boswell alone in his lodgings and is obliged to spin out the evening with the great man 's reflections on extraneous matters - principally the size of his member and a certain actress 's ‘ snow-white boobies of the most generous proportions ’ . |
| 22 | Yesterday , however , the ministers endorsed a counter-proposal prepared by senior treasury officials , which asks that the current zero-rating mechanisms are maintained ‘ for a limited period ’ , on the grounds that too little time is left to adapt to a new system . |
| 23 | Mr Ozberk , who has been refused leave for a judicial review , is left with no right of appeal — unless he first returns to Turkey , where his wife and three children live . |
| 24 | Davidson added that Somerset has about four cases to hear next week which means that Chilcott is left kicking his heels for another seven days . |
| 25 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 26 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 27 | Having deducted the costs after VAT , 50–60 per cent of the money taken from ticket sales is left to share between the promoter and the artist . |
| 28 | After capturing the all-important record contract , the artist is left to work with the A&R person who made their introduction to the company . |
| 29 | In this case , if the artist receives a 12 per cent royalty , and the producer requires a 2 per cent royalty on record sales , the artist is left with a royalty of only 10 per cent split between the members of the band . |
| 30 | So instead of being outraged , one is left with a resigned smirk . |