Example sentences of "it was left to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 2 | Claud however found it increasingly hard to earn because of his Communist past and it was left to Patricia to keep the various wolves from the door . |
| 3 | For years it was left to the family and close associates to keep the search alive . |
| 4 | It was left to our Juniors , competing in the Second World Junior Bridge Championships in Nottingham , to salvage our national pride . |
| 5 | What with one thing and another , it was left to Sir Geoffrey Howe to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | ON A night of Littlewoods Cup upsets it was left to Welling to perform similar derring-do in the FA Cup , writes Jack Massarik . |
| 7 | It was left to another youngster , Russell Beardsmore , playing so tiny he looks like a mascot among the big central defenders , to show United the way . |
| 8 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |
| 9 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 10 | In rejecting such an approach it was left to the Communists to challenge both British fascism and capitalism in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Because of these perceptions , many of the sources of confidence so completely associated with the monarchy — from its role in European affairs to its architecture — came to an end when Mary reigned ; it was left to others to give a lead . |
| 12 | He has a bit more fun with the wrangles over Shaw 's house at Ayot St Lawrence ( it was left to the National Trust ) , while Mrs Shaw 's will , which was also contested in the courts in the Fifties , provides a lively sideshow . |
| 13 | On the day Wright , awash with goals since his £2.5 million move across London , came face to face with his former Crystal Palace colleagues it was left to Merson to emphasise that Arsenal are playing like champions a little too late to worry Manchester United and Leeds . |
| 14 | Only the first was achieved before the collapse of the Society and it was left to Philip Miller to carry on with instruction through his Dictionary . |
| 15 | It was left to the adjacent churches to provide elaboration and the upward thrust of towers , domes , and crosses . |
| 16 | The problem was that nobody from The Smiths camp was prepared to actually inform the band of this decision , and it was left to Easterhouse manager John Barrett to discover the sad truth almost by accident . |
| 17 | Strangely enough , the most critical discovery had already been made , before Hess published his idea , but it was left to two other geologists , F.J. Vine and D.H . |
| 18 | During the first two weeks , it was left to Labour to make the running with its castigation of the ‘ Tories ’ 13 wasted years ’ , and without being challenged on its own appalling record , when last in office . |
| 19 | It was left to Rogers to try to forestall the play-off with a devilish 12-footer at the home green . |
| 20 | In practice , it was left to each overlord to co-ordinate according to taste . |
| 21 | The early , nineteenth-century experiments in artificial lighting , including that held in Sheffield in the year of Chapman 's birth , had been forgotten , and it was left to the Europeans to develop the idea of floodlit football . |
| 22 | There are no by-lines in the Bible , so it was left to scholars a century ago to identify the hidden signatures behind the Pentateuch , the Five Books of the Law , which is the core of the Old Testament . |
| 23 | It was left to us alcoholics to sort out the thorny problem . |
| 24 | II of Capital ( Chapters XX and XXI ) , but did not live to put this part of his work in order for publication , so it was left to Engels to prepare the various drafts for the printer . |
| 25 | Eventually it was left to the proprietors of the banned publications — Times Newspapers Ltd , News International plc , etc. — and ratepayers in some of the local authorities affected to go to court . |
| 26 | Instead it was left to Times Newspapers Ltd and others , to bring the case to court and win on the grounds that the library authorities had abused their powers under Section 7 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 27 | It was left to the psychoanalytical approach to explore the emotional element in reading . |
| 28 | Framlingham reached 60 without loss but the left-arm spinner , Daniel Jackson , broke through and it was left to the final pair to scramble a victory by one wicket . |
| 29 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
| 30 | It was left to Ms Smith 's physician to explain that , ‘ Mandy has a hormone problem known as Premenstrual Syndrome . ’ |