Sentence examples for were to be left from inspiring English sources

Those regions were to be left to the Americans, Canadians, British and Dutch.

Ten homes, among the fanciest in the city, were to be left between the old and new dikes.

Poles were to be left in place, to weather and eventually return to nature, unless a clan decided otherwise.

Even if the tuna were to be left alone afterward, there is no guarantee it would recover.

England were to be left 129 to win and 8½ million people watched spellbound as Ashley Giles and Hoggard sneaked them home by three wickets after Warne had threatened to snatch the game from them.

Officials at the university's Office of Public Affairs, to which requests for comment from President George Rupp were diverted, said that all decisions regarding intercollegiate athletics were to be left in the hands of the athletic department.

The rest was to be left to spontaneity.

His ambition, it seemed, was to be left alone.

The south seems to illustrate a principle of economic development: to be unspoiled is to be left behind.

Her preference is to be left to wander the city or to read.

"What we want is to be left to live here," he said.