Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be left to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The opportunities for the education of the student during her ward allocation must not be left to chance .
3 Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker .
4 An early decision was made that use of the system must not be left to chance .
5 This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only .
6 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 ) .
7 Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country .
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 This should not be left to women communicators alone ; our male counterparts also have an important part to play .
10 The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising .
11 It was envisaged as covering a special situation which should not be left to the more general third party provisions in Articles 34–38 .
12 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 .
13 Research is being carried out on that , but it should be speeded up and it should not be left to police officers to buy such body protection .
14 They therefore need to be strongly managed and should not be left to the local office to undertake on their own .
15 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 .
16 But the last ground , the ‘ need ’ for new licence premises , is questioned and the Government seeks views as to whether the question of ‘ need ’ should best be left to market forces .
17 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 .
18 If it wants to decide on the level of that levy , that issue should also be left to the sector .
19 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 .
20 The practical impact of a guru 's advice must sometimes be left to inference .
21 attempts by the executive arm of government to influence sentencing are unconstitutional ; attempts by the legislature to interfere with the sentencing discretion of the courts are , even if not strictly unconstitutional , bound to result in both practical confusion and injustice to defendants ; the sentencing powers of the courts should therefore be left to the wisdom of the courts , under the guidance of the Court of Appeal .
22 For example , it suggests that Quadrant 1 might best be left to the ‘ scientists ’ , with ‘ cultivate ’ instead of ‘ manage ’ being the modus operandi ( Breton and Gold , 1987 ) .
23 The rest might safely be left to the markets .
24 As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter .
25 It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The punishment of the enemies and the traitors of the working class , it was alleged , was the sole right of the working class and could not be left to the processes of natural degeneration .
30 Community care proposals were perceived by many NHS staff as essentially to do with social care , something which could best be left to the local authorities .
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