Example sentences of "and [pron] was leave to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 3 | Neither representation could be described as positive , however , and it was left to America to develop more progressive portrayals of gay men in the innovative ‘ Soap ’ and later ‘ Brothers ’ . |
| 4 | She rejected him at birth and it was left to Maria Fountain from the Cotswold Wildlife Park to take on the role of Mother . |
| 5 | The couple split up and it was left to Jacques and his parents to raise Nicolas . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding their absences , the day-today business of government had to be carried on and it was left to Ministers of the Crown to do this , noting their resolutions and decisions for later transmission to the monarch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Darwin was not specific as to why males should typically compete more strongly for access to breeding partners than females and it was left to biologists of this century to provide the answer ( Fisher , 1930 ; Bateman , 1948 ; Trivers , 1972 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He refers to the lithographed drawings as ‘ engravings ’ , and he used many short lines like an engraver scratching on copper ; pioneers are often conservative , and it was left to Edward Lear in his superb volume on parrots ( 1832 ) to exploit lithography , using bold flowing lines with his crayon on the stone . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dr Neil 's attention was , for the moment , on the baby , and it was left to McAllister to wipe the mother 's livid , sweating face , only the perspiration on Effie 's face was cold , not hot . |
| 14 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |