Example sentences of "[modal v] be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he suggests that parliamentary democracy is an egalitarian way of deciding certain policy issues , such as what the criminal laws of a community should be ( Dworkin , 1978a , p. 258 ) , and elsewhere , in respect of a more restricted class of ( moral ) policy issues , he has this to say : ‘ Under certain circumstances that issue should be left to democratic institutions to decide , not because a legislature or parliament will necessarily be correct , but because that is a fair way , in these circumstances , to decide moral issues about which reasonable and fair people disagree ’ ( Dworkin , 1981 , p. 208 ) . |
| 2 | He cited the decision last week of Chris Patten , Secretary of State for the Environment , last week to turn down the housing development for Foxley Wood in Hampshire , adding : ‘ We have repeatedly said that , wherever possible , decisions of this kind should be left to local people . ’ |
| 3 | To the disappointment of the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee , the Lord Chancellor declined to fund a full-time secretariat , claiming that it should be left to local or charitable sources . |
| 4 | After the warrants are issued , about $1,100m of the registration should be left for future securities offerings . |
| 5 | Moreover , the fact that Parliament by the Act of 1976 deliberately refrained from legislating for cases such as these , where the child was born before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , does not in any way support the view that these cases should be left for future legislation . |
| 6 | Wide margins should be left on either side of the minutes . |
| 7 | It was the only explanation of why she should be left like this . |
| 8 | No person should be left in unnecessary pain . |
| 9 | Does she believe that it should be left in that country ? |
| 10 | The potential contributions of the academic and in-service courses must be left for another occasion . |
| 11 | Thus large blank areas must be left for further use . |
| 12 | The ways in which these topics would be introduced into a PGCE course would be as varied as those already used for other common topics , and this aspect must be left to individual PGCE tutors . |
| 13 | It was unexpectedly suggested by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , following her three-day visit to the Soviet Union ( from June 7 , and including meetings with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on June 8 ) , that this issue might be left for subsequent negotiation . |
| 14 | The wall was as it had always been … but at the centre was a black smear , like the blackened smear that might be left by some kind of fire ; as if a blowlamp had been held there . |
| 15 | She 'll be leaving for good before the New Year . |
| 16 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll be leaving in ten minutes . |
| 18 | Well er see she 'll b she 'll be left with this now this cough |
| 19 | But it 's a ten past ten flight , I 'll be left by half past nine so I 'll be there for half an hour |
| 20 | If , however , the party is rejected at the polls , it could be left without any role at all . |
| 21 | how the other part of space is used could be left to individual departments on the basis that |
| 22 | Other issues — of ‘ low politics ’ — could be left to voluntary groups , the market , or local government . |
| 23 | In Basque law the farm could be left to any child — even a daughter — while co-heirs were bought out : this encouraged emigration of younger sons ( the rich returned ‘ Indian ’ was a feature of Basque life ) and thus mitigated some of the evils of rural over-population . |
| 24 | Relocate it to the UK , give , say , Craig Charles his head , change Cali to Scally — and you 'd be left with dead air . |
| 25 | It is often ‘ security considerations ’ — fears about security and control — which exacerbate the physical conditions of prisoners ; for example , they may be left for 23 hours a day in their cells because they are not trusted to be let out without a high degree of staff-intensive supervision . |
| 26 | He relates this to the state of culture of his own age , facing dangers of over-specialization , which impoverishes both the religious and artistic sensibilities by separating each from the other , so that only ‘ the vestige of manners may be left for those who , having their sensibility uninformed either by religion or by art , … have nothing left but an inherited behaviour which ceases to have meaning ’ . |
| 27 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 28 | Conductors receive packages at any of the recognized stopping places , or they may be left with certain agents and they are dealt with by special messengers in uniform . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
| 30 | Conversely , if the model 's sensitivity is reduced mechanically to make it easy to fly , the gyro may be left with insufficient control to have any effect . |