Example sentences of "leaving [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere in a key speech , Mr Hurd said the storm which blew through Britain 's institutions last year , ‘ uprooting some and damaging others ’ , has now blown itself out , leaving 1993 a year for ‘ recovery and replanting ’ . |
| 2 | By the door , Frank McHugh comically gulped down the last of his coffee and hurried back to his rig , leaving half a plate of bacon and scrambled eggs on the table . |
| 3 | Well if you 've had enough that 's it then we 'll lose it and we do n't do anything else cos we ca n't keep doing that leaving half a bits and that , this and that |
| 4 | ‘ I intend leaving this the first moment I can for Sydney hence to Hobart Town to see you , although it will verily interfere with my pursuits . |
| 5 | Full discussion of this model is outwith the scope of the present paper , and we are leaving vague the discussion of types of role-mapping which might be important : for the present purpose , by role-mappings of atomic discourse elements , we mean any mapping between a description and an underlying knowledge structure which has been invoked during the understanding process ( and , of course , there may be more than one ) . |
| 6 | There are plans to turn it into a hotel , leaving visible the original Romanesque and Gothic buildings , including the Týn Court . |
| 7 | The plumbers had been blamed by the contractors ( for leaving such a mess ) . |
| 8 | First , the number of ‘ incorrect ’ answers to the yes/no questions was a very high 25% following the short versions of the passages and an even higher 39% when the additional phrase ( for leaving such a mess ) was included . |
| 9 | There are new analyses — German and American — which suggest that we are now leaving such a world , not entering it : that the cold war , falsely represented as a balance of terror between two superpowers , was in reality the period of almost challenged American global dominations . |
| 10 | First of all leaving such a beautiful country and leaving all my family coming over here to a foreign environment to a different world . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just sad to be leaving such a great side , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 13 | This colour is used to cover all the lower part of the picture , but leaving white the reflections of the masts , the roller-reefed jib sails and the yacht hulls . |
| 14 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 15 | In fact , he left not long after , leaving all the secretaries and personal assistants in charge , except for my personal assistant — she got fired . |
| 16 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 17 | Almost all the attractive parts of the house could remain operative : the extensive servants ' quarters — including the back corridor , the two still rooms and the old laundry — and the guest corridor up on the second floor would be dust-sheeted , leaving all the main ground-floor rooms and a generous number of guest rooms . |
| 18 | CHOOSE plates , cutlery and crystal and set the table if practical , leaving all the glasses upside down . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't see the sense in leaving all the work to you , when I have so much time on my hands . ’ |
| 20 | Of all the approaches the latter is likely to succeed the best as they are leaving all the clever stuff to those in the know . |
| 21 | Most of these art centres were quickly colonised by the theatre and theatre-based activities leaving all the other arts as poor relatives , certainly not equal partners within the art centre . |
| 22 | leaving all the time from the churches . |
| 23 | At a pinch , he might very well feel safe enough in going ahead with what he 's doing , and leaving all the rest to you . |
| 24 | Leaving all the lights burning , Sara wandered into the hall , and upstairs , back into her own room . |
| 25 | He said no , so I said do n't lie to me yes you did , I said you just said you did n't know if he kicked her or not , and this argument went on , Danny ended up in tears and I ended up really angry so I said well I 'll go down then , leaving all the kids screaming fuming , but he actually knocks on the door now . |
| 26 | Leaving alone the fact that I and many of the other interpreters were singularly ill-equipped for the task , the room for misunderstanding far exceeded the chance of agreement and harmony . |
| 27 | The Captain also knew that mining the shallows was an unlikely precaution and technically difficult , thus leaving open a side entrance to the port . |
| 28 | She told MPs : ‘ Stage one will not be completed until 1993 , ’ leaving open the possibility that Britain could stay out until after the next election . |
| 29 | It took the form of Baldwin agreeing only to speak for himself and of leaving open the question of an election . |
| 30 | The pages of the charge were folded back leaving open the page on which she was to sign . |