Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] be left to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it may be that this is wishful thinking and that , in practical terms , the award of damages for illegality is incompatible with the theory of judicial review because it can not be reconciled with the idea that the ultimate decision must usually be left to the public authority . |
| 3 | If it wants to decide on the level of that levy , that issue should also be left to the sector . |
| 4 | The Homicide Act 1957 deprived judges of their power to give authoritative rulings on the sufficiency of provocation , and the question must now be left to the jury , which should apply the test of the ‘ reasonable man ’ to everything said or done before the killing which might amount to provocation . |
| 5 | The role of judge can not be left to the exchange prosecutors , but must be given to an independent adjudicator or tribunal . |
| 6 | Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors . |
| 7 | As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers . |
| 8 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 9 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 10 | … 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 . |
| 11 | The rest might safely be left to the markets . |
| 12 | The practical impact of a guru 's advice must sometimes be left to inference . |
| 13 | Most practitioners will have their own list of preferred specialists and the aquisition of such important know-how must not be left to chance ( see further Chapter 3 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The size of the payments and their timing would reportedly be left to the negotiators . |
| 16 | He urged the court to accept the argument of the commission that the assessment of the need for and proportionality of specific legislation can not be left to the national courts . |
| 17 | The opportunities for the education of the student during her ward allocation must not be left to chance . |
| 18 | Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces . |
| 19 | An early decision was made that use of the system must not be left to chance . |
| 20 | Whereas the recovery of alluvial gold could safely be left to the Iberians of the Guadalquivir , the Douro or the Tagus , the Romans found it necessary to exercise much closer control to extract gold from the mines of Asturias . |
| 21 | The form of the advertisement may either be left to the discretion of the landlord ( or his surveyors ) or be dealt with in the lease . |
| 22 | This step should not be left to the patient 's family , who will probably not know of the facility and may be inhibited by questions of expense . |
| 23 | Moreover , the Commission considered that the social benefits that would accrue from economic developments arising from the internal market could not be left to chance . |