Example sentences of "to be left to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the experience of religious dread had left any permanent effect would have to be left to the test of time . |
| 2 | In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion . |
| 3 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |
| 4 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 5 | Nothing would be a worse prescription for the future of the Community than for what are patently political matters to be left to the determination of the European Court , which is both unsuited and incapable of settling them . |
| 6 | It was better to be with their husbands and earning their keep , however difficult and dangerous the situation than to be left to the charity of the Parish . |
| 7 | Indeed the identi-kit minister called ‘ God 's man ’ used to appear on the back cover of Life and Work in advertisements inviting legacies to be left to the Church and Ministry department , was aged about 60 and had white hair and a moustache . |
| 8 | Far too important to be left to the position dictated by historical accident or cultural prejudice . |
| 9 | Even in the present day when a wife may own part of the matrimonial home and may have a separate job , Scott LJ felt that the tendency was for business decisions to be left to the husband and the main domestic responsibilities to the wife . |
| 10 | But the tendency in households for business decisions to be left to the husband and for the wife , whether or not she is a joint owner of the matrimonial home and whether or not she has a separate job , to have the main domestic responsibilities still persists . |
| 11 | The Mid Shift button offers quite a marked change in tonality , and is something to be left to the taste of the individual and his/her guitar type . |
| 12 | Besides , any interrogation had to be left to the Captain , who had enough experience to separate the half-truths from the lies . |
| 13 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 14 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 15 | He died in 1753 , in his ninety-third year , having made arrangements for his great collections , valued at £80,000 , to be left to the nation , on the condition that £20,000 be paid to his daughters . |
| 16 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |