Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 2 | That has left the impression that trade policy is at the mercy of ad hoc decision-making by a variety of officials . |
| 3 | Whatever the result turned out to be , I would need sustenance , ( the Eccles cakes being something of a long shot ) , and that meant being prepared to risk leaving the Shell for a lightning raid into Pigeon Alley . |
| 4 | This has left the armed forces short of modern equipment . |
| 5 | That was sufficient to reverse the market 's early 16.5 drop to leave the FTSE 1.4 off at 3037.2 . |
| 6 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 7 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 8 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 9 | Although it was estimated that a further 2,000 more police would be needed to cope with rapidly rising crime ( 40,000 more crimes were reported in 1989 compared with 1988 , and there were 100,000 unsolved cases ) , an estimated 3,540 had left the force for more lucrative jobs as security guards . |
| 10 | Schools run themselves some have left the authority , we still have three education sub committees a major education committee , numerous sub groups and working parties and it 's gone time we recognised the changing world and streamlined the members side of the education department in the same way that the officer side 's been streamlined and slimmed down . |
| 11 | He says ; It is always sad to seepeople leave the company but the move will bring people onto one site is very positive . |
| 12 | United Left was reported on Jan. 7 to have left the alliance although it remained open towards it . |
| 13 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 14 | These trends , allied with the increased life expectancy of older people , have combined with the result that children are increasingly likely to have left the parental home to establish an independent household before the death of their parents . |
| 15 | Only one doctor was there , three had left the country . |
| 16 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 17 | After gathering again in Milton Keynes in the early hours of this morning they all decided to leave the field at the same time , but there were only two exits . |
| 18 | No matches were found but no data were available on how many had left the state of Florida . |
| 19 | The social worker complained bitterly about the fact that Mrs X had left the home , and told her off . |
| 20 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 21 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 22 | We insist that all work leaving the office is suitably checked , and I underline the word suitably checked . |
| 23 | Iron Age tribes , the legions of Rome , the Norsemen and Danes , the monks , and the lay landowners who followed them : all of them , from the great lords and princes of Christendom to the little men who kept their huts on the commons , along with Quakers , Methodists , travelling packmen , lead-miners , quarrymen and rail men , all have left the print of their passing on the land . |
| 24 | Often , unable to bear leaving the dress until the next night , Constance would get up after Nora had closed the door and , placing her dressing gown at its foot so that no light would show , spend another hour or two at the work she loved . |
| 25 | ALL THOSE WISHING TO LEAVE THE WAXWORKS HERE , KINDLY USE THE APPROPRIATE EXIT . |
| 26 | Nails was very unlikely to have left the car in the same place ; he never did , it was too inconvenient . |
| 27 | British couples have less need to leave the city to find a garden . |
| 28 | The new government of President Guillermo Endara ( installed by the US authorities at the start of the invasion ) threatened on Jan. 3 to break off diplomatic relations with Cuba and Nicaragua ( the only two countries to have consistently supported the Noriega regime ) if they continued to refuse to recognize the new authorities of the country , and the Peruvian chargé d'affaires , Luis Sandiga , was on Jan. 16 ordered to leave the country . |
| 29 | Nine Iranians were on Feb. 1 ordered to leave the UK by Feb. 9 , on the grounds that their conduct was " not conducive to the public good " . |
| 30 | Between 1951 and 1961 , he said , population had increased by 10,000 , but 6,500 had left the city because they were unable to find accommodation . |