Example sentences of "[adv] be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation .
2 Unfortunately , it had not been left at that .
3 A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six .
4 Only Georgia among the former Soviet republics would thus be left without diplomatic relations with the USA .
5 He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision .
6 That night , Edward took Erica to dinner at the Savoy Grill in the Strand and explained that he would not be leaving after all .
7 ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years .
8 … selection should not be left to individual librarians to be based on ‘ the mood of the speaker ’ , and this is not happening in authorities that are recognising the need for properly thought-out selection policies based on the political policies of the local authority , together with an analysis of the local community , in the context of wider statutory provision across the authority .
9 Why should it not be left to individual members of the Bar to decide whether they wish to specialise in advocacy ?
10 Given its position in the struggle and the structures of a capitalist formation , a class may not be left with many options .
11 I E the , the agricultural sector would , would not be left with enough resources to improve .
12 The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all .
13 But your difficulty , surely , is that even if sanctions had worked for a year or even two years , you would still be left with that formidable monster of a regime …
14 And you would only you you Yes you 'd meet more of the affordable requirement no doubt , than you would at the lower figures , but in my view , you 'd still be left with some fairly substantial problems in particular areas .
15 What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ .
16 Some other topics , such as the discussion of the Asiatic mode of production and the notion of ideology , will also be left to other parts of the book .
17 In such cases , she will clearly be left without any protection from the criminal law at all .
18 The subsequent application of such rules or guidelines must properly be left to those with particular knowledge of the circumstances of the cases in question .
19 If rationing or discriminatory decisions in health care are rarely made explicit within the National Health Service , such judgements are nonetheless made , and have typically been left to individual doctors .
20 You should now be left with two acetate page markers , and everything else should be away in one of the binders , apart possibly from the dates .
21 He ca n't be left like that . ’
22 It is still more likely than not that all EC countries will have ratified the Maastricht Treaty by the end of 1993 , and it can then be left to one side for a year or so while the easing of German monetary policy and a return to positive European economic growth ease the pains of convergence .
23 Sleeves which are knitted straight are very easy to set up and can then be left until complete .
24 Somewhere in the middle we have Russo 's system where the people make laws but no do nothing else everything else is left to appointed individuals .
25 He must never be left in such a position that he can carry on the habit , he must be made to forget it ; this sometimes takes three months , or longer in the worst cases …
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