The phrase "a development that left" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that resulted in a significant change or impact on something or someone.
Example: "The recent economic downturn was a development that left many families struggling to make ends meet."
Alternatives: "an event that resulted in" or "a change that caused".
Three years ago, Goldman Sachs decided to build the tallest and most expensive skyscraper in Jersey City -- a development that left New York officials fuming over the snub.
And the PNG government has called time on the festering human rights catastrophe that is Manus Island, a development that left both parties gawpingly devoid of answers.
Although all of his father's other assets were split equally, the family's New Hampshire vacation home went solely to Mr. Collier, a development that left one of his three sisters resentful.
At one point, he said, Mr. Blair's aides tried to get him disinvited from a dinner at the White House for the prime minister, a development that left him feeling as if he had been punched "in the solar plexus," Sir Christopher writes.
It is a development that has infuriated unions, employees and the left wing of his party.
Shorten ignored advice from all the key parliamentary players on the right, and many in the left faction, not to bring Kitching to Canberra – a development that has caused consternation in the Victorian ALP.
With Staley entrenched at left tackle, and Davis drafted to play right tackle, it was obvious that Iupati would remain a guard, a development that pleased him.
The overbuilding of the 1980's that left large speculative housing developments standing unoccupied was burned into their memories.
Previous studies reported that left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a cardiomyopathy, familial or sporadic, arising from arrest of the normal process of trabecular remodeling during embryonic development.
It ought to make migration policy less politically divisive on both left and right - it would be a logical development that those who fail to come forward could have few complaints if they were removed.
