Example sentences of "was leave to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was left to the cantons to decide whether to follow suit on the local level .
2 Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever .
3 These directors were usually given responsibility for all aspects of quality except medical quality , which was left to the initiatives of the Royal Colleges ( see , for instance , RCGP 1985 ; Campling et al.
4 Terrell says the duplication was left to the accountants to sort out .
5 The early , nineteenth-century experiments in artificial lighting , including that held in Sheffield in the year of Chapman 's birth , had been forgotten , and it was left to the Europeans to develop the idea of floodlit football .
6 In rejecting such an approach it was left to the Communists to challenge both British fascism and capitalism in the 1930s .
7 In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so .
8 Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab .
9 Less was left to the vagaries of the opera-house system , and the creators stood more chance of seeing their ideas realised faithfully .
10 In many parts of the country , it was left to the peasants to apportion both land and the payments due to the landlord and the State .
11 Eventually it was left to the proprietors of the banned publications — Times Newspapers Ltd , News International plc , etc. — and ratepayers in some of the local authorities affected to go to court .
12 Er and so the constitution of the United States contained within it certain ambiguities , a certain vagueness of er statement and the actual working of that in practice er was left to the politicians and the judges of , of later times .
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