Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 4 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Doctor , ’ said Julie , ‘ I 'll leave you to the tender mercies of these ladies . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll leave it to the young men , like yourself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , the Government leave it to the financial operations of others , and meanwhile the economy is run on the basis that one might be able to regulate but not to promote . |
| 15 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 16 | ‘ The onus is on line managers to develop the people who report to them and not leave it to the human resources professional , or anybody else . |
| 17 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 18 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 19 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons . |
| 26 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Turks despised trade and commerce and left it to the Christian zimmi to conduct such activities . |
| 29 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 30 | It is said that the most the justices should do if they think that contact should not take place is to say that there should be no order as to contact , leaving it to the local authority and the parent by agreement to make any other provisions they wish . |