Example sentences of "[adv] leave [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this meeting , Gen. Suchinda publicly assured the Prime Minister that the Army would remain loyal , and Chatichai was confident enough to leave for the United States on schedule . |
| 2 | Though she was a performer of indisputable talent , one was none the less left with a nagging impression that overarching each of her individual characteristics was another role , one she played to the hilt : that of the grande dame , the First Lady of the American cinema , the Duse of the double-feature . |
| 3 | Thereafter she toured abroad each year , sometimes taking long leave from the Imperial Ballet until she resigned altogether in 1913 . |
| 4 | The biggest danger , however , comes from within : a key carelessly left in the lock . |
| 5 | However , John Stork & partners Ltd ( as it was then styled ) itself suffered a disastrous blow in the autumn of 1986 when two of its star consultants , Anthony Saxton and Stephen Bampfylde , suddenly left with no warning , taking one of the two senior researchers , Tim Roberts , with them . |
| 6 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 7 | Nor has he been idle since 1990 , when he was apparently left without a City role after relinquishing executive control of money-brokers R P Martin , and the closure of his Quadrex Securities . |
| 8 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 9 | The real world has long left behind the age when old so-and-so could decide ‘ I rather like this slogan ’ or ‘ My constituents think we ought to do such and such ’ without that ‘ feeling ’ being backed up by professional research and experience . |
| 10 | So you 're only left with a thousand so |
| 11 | So you see I 'm only left with the . |
| 12 | The Hoge Raad held that the point as to the cases in which there was ‘ occasion to transmit a … document for service abroad ’ was entirely left to the domestic law of the state of origin of the documents . |
| 13 | Greeks , Romans , Saracens and Normans have all left behind a rich cultural heritage of theatres and temples , bridges and aqueducts , churches , towers and palaces . |
| 14 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 15 | ‘ two suitors , two girls under the erroneous impression that they are engaged to a man called Ernest , a gorgon-like mother-in-law and a baby inadvertently left in a handbag at Victoria Station left-luggage office ( the Brighton line ) ’ |
| 16 | This ensures nothing is inadvertently left inside the patient , although modern-day swabs do show up on X-rays . |
| 17 | It is with meaning , as the publicly accessible and thus objective constituent of texts , that literary criticism must be concerned ; effect , being both variable and private , is much better left outside the field of enquiry . |
| 18 | Correction — they 're better left on the page . |
| 19 | It is very complexed and probably better left to a qualified solicitor . |
| 20 | Despite those veterans seen in the marathons , jogging is tough on the joints and better left to the young and the truly athletic . |
| 21 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 22 | Women who could carry a child under each arm on a day 's shopping trip were told they were not strong enough to do men 's work ; that lifting and lugging were better left to the lads after all . |
| 23 | Maybe some things were better left to the natural course of time . |
| 24 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 25 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 26 | She apparently left through an unlocked door . |
| 27 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 28 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
| 29 | Terry Long joined Crystal Palace on 12 May 1955 from Wycombe Wanderers — and did not leave until the autumn of 1973 , some 18 years later . |
| 30 | Some countries have tried to slow down the exodus by insisting that players can not leave before a certain age , usually 28 , or until they have completed their national service . |