Example sentences of "leave [pron] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Elfyn Llwyd , Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy , protested : ‘ To leave it to a mayoral fund is pathetic . ’
2 To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty .
3 To leave it to the transforming imagination .
4 There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements .
5 If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
6 But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season .
7 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
8 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
9 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
10 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
11 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
12 We 'll leave it to a softer Pen :
13 Sometimes one school will have a set policy and even a policy statement on homework while another will leave it to the individual whim of the teacher .
14 Educational facilities and the quality of teaching staff must also improve — either colleges of nursing must only employ qualified teaching staff or they should leave it to the higher education establishments , who will also be able to facilitate adequate library facilities .
15 Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics .
16 well , not to come in the next , but rather to you know , sort of leave it to a higher justice if you like .
17 Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes .
18 Other States , in the interests of speed , leave it to the competent authority to return the documents , or to inform the requesting authority that the Letter of Request has not been executed .
19 The council may then recommend one name for approval to a general meeting of the association , or it may put forward more than one name and leave it to the general meeting to decide .
20 If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up .
21 Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute .
22 Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet .
23 Her own father had left her readily , left her to an uncertain future , his love for some glamorous Frenchwoman overriding his love and duty to his own child .
24 That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new .
25 Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again .
26 Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre .
27 But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document .
28 Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw .
29 Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station .
30 They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker .
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