Example sentences of "have left [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone .
2 But in following him through that aim , we nevertheless have left untouched some of the ideas for which he is famous .
3 The communities which have left archaeological deposits are necessarily ones which have survived in competition with others , yet their capacity to survive depended not merely on the effectiveness of their economies and technology , but also on maintaining standards of excellence .
4 Visitors to the town have left varying impressions .
5 They happened at every siege ; they have left rich and often still untouched pickings for the determined detectorist .
6 I have left intact , a heat rash
7 Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc 's plans to get out of its current financial hole have left Standard & Poor 's Corp unmoved and seen the company 's subordinated debt downgraded to a dire CCC+ with the outlook negative ( CI No 2,111 ) .
8 By removing 2 million homes from the rented sector at a time when families are becoming smaller , the Government have left young people with nowhere to go .
9 The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth .
10 A lack of environmental awareness and weak environmental legislation have left British manufacturers behind in the race to develop the new equipment required to monitor the environment and assess pollution levels , according to a report by the Department of Trade and Industry .
11 In the west , hunter-gatherers from Ireland have left plentiful flint knives and arrowheads , deer antlers and whalebones , around the shores of Luce Bay in Galloway .
12 The death of his father Robert Maxwell and the collapse of his business empire have left United fighting for financial survival .
13 Some of the organisms that evolved the ability to split hydrogen sulphide have left direct descendants , bacteria that now live in environments such as marshes and hot springs .
14 In a month or so , when the camera crews have left South-Central Los Angeles and weeds begin to poke their way up through the tarmac in the burned-out lots , it will be easy enough to see who was just talking and who had a genuine plan .
15 But first , in looking at the history of classical principles in the previous chapters I have left loose ends untied and contradictions unresolved .
16 Meanwhile , the book 's last essay , titled Black Women and Feminism , takes to task those African-American feminists who are reluctant to acknowledge that by ignoring sexism in the Black community they have left unaddressed the abuse and subjugation of Black women by Black men .
17 The EPR paper concludes with the words While we have thus shown that the wavefunction does not provide a complete description of physical reality , we have left open the question of whether or not such a description exists .
18 So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state .
19 This year 's programme is designed to give you some fresh ideas for classwork and there are five sessions which we have left open to negotiation .
20 RECORD repossessions have left Royal Insurance with a £100 million bill in the last six months .
21 My hon. Friend will be glad to hear that in our draft guidance we have left considerable room for the discretion of the Local Government Commission .
22 Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ?
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