1.   A week later the lion was trapped by a net some hunters had left as a wild animal trap.

2.   At the end of the day the teacher was as eager to leave as the children.

3.   Differential erosion of the rocks has resulted in the hard rocks being left as peaks separated by deeply eroded valleys and ravines.

4.   He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.

5.   He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.

6.   Houses where families have lived for generations are left as blackened, shattered skeletons.

7.   The quantum mechanical formalism itself is left as the sole source of insight.

8.   The United States is left as the only global superpower, in effect.

9.   They gathered the flowers that had been left as offerings, they blew the floating candles out.