Example sentences of "leave it [prep] [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 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 Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics .
9 One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’
10 When you remove food from the freezer , do n't leave it in a warm atmosphere or allow it to come into contact with unclean hands , surfaces or equipment before returning it to the freezer — you will be at risk of freezing in any contamination .
11 In the meanwhile , if we 're going to use the B/R grant pretty soon , can I just leave it in the current account ?
12 I 'll leave it in the other room for you .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 We can not , therefore , leave it as an irreducible fact about different physical processes that they ‘ feel ’ different .
21 Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak .
22 This route begins from Glen Nevis and you can take your car up to the head of the Glen and leave it in a packed car park , if you can find a space between the ice-cream vans and hot-dog vendors .
23 ‘ If you leave it in a dark place and keep it wet it 's bound to grow big .
24 If you 're desperate to get rid of it , use a general-purpose saw to cut it in small sections ( very hard and dirty work ! ) so that it can be passed down through the loft hatch ; otherwise leave it in an unused corner of the loft .
25 Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign .
26 However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab .
27 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 . ’
28 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 .
29 Left it on the front doorstep !
30 There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end .
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