Example sentences of "[subord] leave [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might feel inclined to say : Well , that is a pity , but it would be a greater evil to interfere ; it would be worse to make the law uncertain than to leave a particular hardship unredressed . |
| 2 | ‘ I can wait for you , ’ she said huskily , and Claudia wanted nothing more than to leave a car that was rapidly becoming far too small for three . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 4 | Kate Probst , of Resources for the Future , argues that it is usually fairer to penalise polluters than to leave the taxpayer to clean up dirty old sites . |
| 5 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 6 | ‘ In cold weather some people come here rather than leave the building but there 's not much enticement when it 's dry and sunny outside . ’ |
| 7 | Of course some of those who are really willing to take 36s. rather than leave the market without selling , will not show at once that they are ready to accept that price . |
| 8 | Stavrogin s prodigal scattering of reasons does more than leave the question open . |
| 9 | On the other hand , when the price is much below 36s. , even those sellers who would rather take the price than leave the market with their corn unsold , will argue that at that price the demand will be in excess of the supply : so they will wait , and by waiting help to bring the price up . |
| 10 | Replace the habit with something else rather than leaving a void . |
| 11 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 12 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 13 | A careful , just and public system of this kind may be a fairer way of deciding between competing bids for scarce resources than leaving the fate of an elder to the personal impressions or abilities of a practitioner . |
| 14 | Where Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) are unable to find a social explanation for gender differences , for instance , as with female-male differences in aggression , they resort to biology , rather than leaving the issue open . |
| 15 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 16 | Traffic 's director Jorgen Thomsen draws attention to the responsibility of the tropical timber consuming countries , along with the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) , to find effective solutions rather than leaving the responsibility to the producing countries . |
| 17 | Then made as if to leave the room . |
| 18 | Wondering if leaves a slime trail behind him . |
| 19 | Economic power is political power , and it makes no sense to implement the principle of equality in respect of votes while leaving every other form of political power to be distributed according to the gross inequities of the capitalist market . |
| 20 | The government was criticized for referring an agreed bid , while leaving a hostile bid free to proceed . |
| 21 | Employing a short biliary balloon to remove the old stent while leaving a guide wire in place is an alternative technique . |
| 22 | Peter Ackroyd has here performed the not impossible feat of plagiarising himself — while leaving the reader in doubt as to whether the writer shares this implausible estimate of Chatterton 's marvellous buoyancy . |
| 23 | Second , they give users a microcomputer-style interface while leaving the applications , and the host computers on which they are running , in the control of the data processing department . |
| 24 | In all the examples cited so far the dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition has taken the form of showing that certain procedures abolish the latter while leaving the former intact . |
| 25 | ‘ There are 13 different floor levels in the building , ’ Phil Wren claims — the result of creating five floors out of three in the studios , while leaving the south-west administration block , with its library , accounts and research department , at its original three . |
| 26 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 27 | Some local parents were complaining that teachers correct some wrong spellings , while leaving the majority untouched , so as not to upset the child . |
| 28 | Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact . |
| 29 | The first cleaning happens right out there in the orchard , because many of the harvesters have fans that blow sticks and other debris away while leaving the nuts to fall into their trailer . |
| 30 | This described Dutch society as one in which liberal consensus has smothered over expressions of homophobia , while leaving the underlying heterosexism intact . |