Example sentences of "be [verb] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phase two of INDECS will involve automating the process further , The cards will be replaced by computer terminals at ports , which will automatically register those visitors who are given leave to stay in Britain for a fixed period . |
| 2 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 4 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |
| 5 | And when I heard that he had asked and been given leave to go forth to Longner that night , I feared he meant to escape us , either by absence , or even by flight , having seen justice might overtake him yet . |
| 6 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 7 | The sister of Derek Bentley , executed for his alleged role in the killing of a policeman forty years ago , has been given leave to take court action to secure a posthumous pardon . |
| 8 | So they went to the High Court to challenge the decision and have been given leave to seek a judicial review . |
| 9 | But the travellers have been given leave to appeal . |
| 10 | ‘ I know that you are predisposed to leave things here ; I have employed purely technical means to help you rid yourself of something you wish to regard as a technical problem but behind this eidetic delusion we both know there lies an emotional reality . |
| 11 | Ideally it would have been wished to leave the model in the stock overnight , but as the equipment was required by another experimenter the animal was removed . |
| 12 | For the last four years the widow had been forbidden to leave her husband 's side , and her legs had so deteriorated that ( it being considered lèse-majesté ; to crawl ) she had herself carried about her diminutive space by her " slaves " , the " lesser widows " . |
| 13 | However , by the time of the debate in the Supreme Soviet on May 13 these fears appeared to have faded : in the light of the introduction by most Western governments of tighter immigration procedures for Soviet citizens , Soviet officials estimated that the number seeking to emigrate would be around 500,000 annually , little more than the 454,000 who had been permitted to leave in 1990 . |
| 14 | The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year . |
| 15 | Compulsory chores are a thing of the past , although you are expected to leave rooms tidy . |
| 16 | The couple are also expected to spend their wedding night in the secluded lodge and are expected to leave Balmoral on Sunday . |
| 17 | Six RAF Tornados are expected to leave for Iraq from their base at Marham , Norfolk , by the weekend . |
| 18 | They are expected to leave Didcot Parkway at . |
| 19 | Robert Schore 's article printed in the first edition has been edited leaving only his case examples to save duplication of the information which is now in a more expanded form in John Tomlinson 's essay . |
| 20 | I AM RESOLVED to leave some brief account of my days while I am still able . |
| 21 | But the eyes on him were shining as at Kalopetra , when he had been constrained to leave , and she , for a while , had stood to stop him ; stood as close as the flesh on his body . |
| 22 | In a small number of cases the defendant will have deliberately driven without a licence because he ca n't pass a test ; he is a visitor to Britain and because he has been granted leave to stay , he now requires a licence etc. , i.e. within 12 months for a visitor . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the prosecution failed to disclose that the complainant had a spent conviction for theft , and it was held that , had the conviction been duly disclosed , the defence would have applied for and would undoubtedly have been granted leave to cross-examine the complainant about it . |
| 24 | Flora has been granted leave to apply for a contact order . |
| 25 | The court can make a s8 order of its own volition or on the application of any person who is entitled to apply or has been granted leave to do so ( s10(1) ) . |
| 26 | According to loyalists , prisoner Gary Fulton had been granted leave to visit his seriously ill mother on Friday . |
| 27 | He had been granted leave to visit his sick mother but when he was ready to leave the jail he was told his mother had died and was ordered back to his cell . |
| 28 | But even the fiercest dissenter would have been pushed to leave McIlvanney out of the frame . |
| 29 | ‘ Like many others , I welcome the concession that has been made to leave out the airline staff and the railway employees and all the others that are left out by the dropping of clause 54(4) . |
| 30 | He had left after the scuffle ; had been seen to leave . |