Example sentences of "leave it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , if we 're going to use the B/R grant pretty soon , can I just leave it in the current account ? |
| 6 | I 'll leave it in the other room for you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 10 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 11 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 12 | Left it on the front doorstep ! |
| 13 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 21 | That still leaves it with the human problem of what to do about its many customers , the sizeable backlog of orders they have created and the delays they face . |
| 22 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 23 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |