Example sentences of "left [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 've left the original spelling and orthography to give a feel of the vigour of the language .
2 ROGER Flanagan , former sales and marketing director for equipment supplier Masters & Andren , has left the company to concentrate on his own consultancy GP Consultants .
3 Mrs Feather 's daughter Imogen had a brief , unhappy affair with Phipps , only last Christmas , and had subsequently left the village to care for an elderly aunt in Scotland .
4 ‘ There 's been nights of passionate love in this house that have left the lovers more depressed than ecstatic , ’ said Thomas , who found the neurotic sex-lives of some of his betters incomprehensible .
5 However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead .
6 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 .
7 Many pilots quite unwittingly take off with the stick right back , not realising that if the launch fails when they have just left the ground , an accident will be inevitable .
8 If there really are no suitable fields within range , then you have left the choice far too late and you must choose the best you can .
9 One of the biggest hazards is overcontrolling just after you have left the ground .
10 In other words , Sergeant Wilson ( who has since left the force ) agreed to compromise to enhance his career opportunities rather than present any challenge to the system .
11 As he said of it much later , ‘ We who belong to the city have never left the Church .
12 By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building .
13 I 've left the iron/oven/electric fire on .
14 We seemed to have left the world behind .
15 Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it .
16 Lebanon 's MPs — 31 of them Muslims , 31 of them Christians — have left the militia leaders behind in Beirut to keep the peace .
17 The dispute has left the bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit in , at least temporary , tatters .
18 But the strikes themselves have left the most disturbing legacy .
19 Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years .
20 However , there are doubts about how much of the Deloitte client list will be left intact once it has left the international organisation .
21 This unequal balance is at the heart of the Muslim ( and Syrian ) demand for political reform in Lebanon , a demand which General Aoun will only accept , he says , once the Syrians have left the country .
22 A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes .
23 Leftist Unity is targeting its campaign on the big industrial cities , such as Madrid , Barcelona and Valencia , as well as the region of Andalucia , where centuries of serfdom to the local noblemen have left the working class with a strong streak of radicalism .
24 Only one doctor was there , three had left the country .
25 Jewish emigration continued to increase , and this year 33,000 people had left the Soviet Union , nearly double the figure for the whole of 1988 .
26 The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected .
27 Anybody who supposes that the events of 1983 in the Caribbean have left the humbug of the Commonwealth unscathed is as self-deceived as those who imagine that the humbug of the United Nations has been unscathed by the events of 1982 in the South Atlantic .
28 Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited .
29 For quite legitimate reasons , later commentators have often left the problem aside .
30 I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly .
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