Example sentences of "leave it to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 5 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 6 | I 'll leave it to the young men , like yourself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 14 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Turks despised trade and commerce and left it to the Christian zimmi to conduct such activities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Gold has been stripped of the magical investment properties once ascribed to the metal , leaving it to the merciless forces of physical supply and physical demand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |