Example sentences of "be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | If you 've taken down a door leading from hall to living room , or kitchen to dining room , you may be lucky and be left with interesting architrave mouldings around doorways , but if they 're plain modern ones , you 'll probably rip them out with the door . |
32 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
33 | If you try to squeeze these requirements in around the mainstream business , you will be left with scrappy little bits of free time that are useless , and your visitors will feel cheated . |
34 | Relocate it to the UK , give , say , Craig Charles his head , change Cali to Scally — and you 'd be left with dead air . |
35 | Children and parents can be left with these charts for months . |
36 | In certain fields , such as voting theory , there have been significant advances , but the broader questions have tended to be left on one side . |
37 | Generators powered by a free energy source can be left on all the time , perpetually recharging the batteries and , provided they are of an adequate size , can handle the charging demand of all but the largest yachts for most of the time . |
38 | Wide margins should be left on either side of the minutes . |
39 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
40 | In the above circumstances , there would simply be a special condition attaching to the draft contract , which would recite the deed that was to be the root of title , and the matter would be left at that until after contracts were exchanged . |
41 | Some other topics , such as the discussion of the Asiatic mode of production and the notion of ideology , will also be left to other parts of the book . |
42 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
43 | Only 13 per cent thought marketing activity would be left to each individual country . |
44 | 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 ) . |
45 | … 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 . |
46 | how the other part of space is used could be left to individual departments on the basis that |
47 | Why should it not be left to individual members of the Bar to decide whether they wish to specialise in advocacy ? |
48 | 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 . |
49 | So how can protecting the environment be left to individual conscience ? |
50 | 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 . |
51 | It is still more likely than not that all EC countries will have ratified the Maastricht Treaty by the end of 1993 , and it can then be left to one side for a year or so while the easing of German monetary policy and a return to positive European economic growth ease the pains of convergence . |
52 | Should private individuals be given a remedy through the courts ; or should it , rather , be left to some public official , such as the Attorney-General , or to Parliament or an ombudsman , or to some officer or body within government itself to supervise the activities of government ? |
53 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
54 | The protection of what is truly important to the culture of the whole of Europe is too serious a matter to be left to unrealistic laws . |
55 | 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 . ’ |
56 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |
57 | The details of how such intentions could be realized would be left to local joint planning and financing at the district level : ‘ any proposal to move the balance of care from hospital to community should come from the local level ’ . |
58 | 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 . |
59 | Other issues — of ‘ low politics ’ — could be left to voluntary groups , the market , or local government . |
60 | 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 . |