Example sentences of "have left a " in BNC.

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1 The men who tried to civilize these shaggy and uncouth marginalians by bringing them news of civilization have left a certain number of translations that are better reading today than are the works of the ignorant islanders who were too Proud to translate .
2 The history of three German invasions in less than a century , together with the ambiguous record of the French under German occupation onwards , and the sudden , unexpected , role as one of the victorious powers , have left a mixed historical residue composed of fear , awe and mistrust .
3 ‘ You have left a large void in my Heart , ’ Coleridge wrote in November .
4 You have left a place where you are loved and accepted and have come into a strange environment where you do n't belong to a family unit anymore .
5 Contributing factors include a very dry , hot summer which helps the algae to flourish , along with the residue of pesticides from farms and effluent from factories which , although greatly improved in modern times and now controlled , have left a residue on the loch bottom which still caused problems .
6 FIVE hundred years of conquest and colonisation have left a bitter legacy for many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas .
7 CAR thieves have left a disabled man virtually housebound after taking his car and crashing it into a wall .
8 Most bedrooms boast a large arched window , and past renovations have left a blended style of marble and iron .
9 There was , in the arrangements for depend ants and widows , inevitably built into the scheme certain assumptions about the male breadwinner and his relationship to the family unit , which have left a difficult legacy for attempts to balance the interests of men and women in our own age .
10 This has led her beyond the sciences , but the philosophical and literary implications of her involvement with the theories of Heisenberg and others have left a lasting mark on her work .
11 The very few working class women who have left a record of their conscious decision to limit their families usually mention the plight of their mothers as the decisive factor .
12 The English poll tax returns of 1377 , 1379 and 1381 have left a wealth of documentation , mainly in the form of indentures recording the number of 1377 tax-payers by vill and detailed rolls for 1379 and 1381 listing the names , assessments and often the occupational details and relationships of the tax-payers .
13 The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field .
14 Freak snowstorms over hillsides have left a trail of carnage in their wake , and many recently sheared ewes have died of cold .
15 I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind
16 Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 .
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