Example sentences of "be leave to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Where there is a climate of trust , respect and responsibility , initiatives can be left to others ; is there a need for the head to meet every visitor , make every telephone call or sign every letter ?
3 These orders fulfil that bear minimum and it will be left to others to do that job well .
4 That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes .
5 ( The repair of stacks should be left to professionals )
6 Because of this statistics are often dismissed as irrelevant or to be left to specialists .
7 It is further submitted that , as Parliament has intervened by the Act of 1976 in the matter of pre-natal injuries to unborn children , it should be left to Parliament to effect any further change in the law that may be thought necessary or to develop the law from where it was left by the Divisional Court in Ireland in Walker 's case .
8 In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified .
9 This should not be left to women communicators alone ; our male counterparts also have an important part to play .
10 Accordingly , it will be extremely rare for a government to press the matter to a vote and it will be left to Members opposing the instrument to move its rejection .
11 This task is , in my view , something for all of us , and can not be left to doctors or parents to determine , unless we decide formally to authorize them to do so by law .
12 Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium .
13 Thank you er , Gillian Shepherd told other E C Ministers that she and virtually every employer 's organization in Europe remained strongly opposed to the proposals and said it should be left to companies at local level to council workers .
14 As it is , he slyly suggests that minor artists may look down their noses at major ones and that ‘ important ’ work may be left to persons of an inferior kennel , like the Russians , the Germans , the Americans , who , poor dears , know no better .
15 He meant , of course , that anything beautiful , anything worthwhile , should not just be left to experts — we should all be in there enjoying it , taking part in it .
16 Reservations continued to be expressed about the power of teacher unions in the Council and there were those who felt that ‘ the curriculum was too important to be left to teachers ’ .
17 Sessions may be timetabled on a regular basis — once a fortnight or once every five lessons , say — or it may be left to teachers to request the room when they want to use video .
18 She did n't want to be left to stand alone in some dark night-time corridor .
19 The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained .
20 The opportunities for the education of the student during her ward allocation must not be left to chance .
21 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 .
22 If you are thinking of building a tank with a water capacity of say 250 gallons in your front room , nothing can be left to chance .
23 Organizational commitment would not appear to be left to chance in many cases .
24 The task of ordering the Church 's worship is too awesome to be left to chance , either in the hope that the person responsible for it will pick up the necessary skills or in the belief that it can be done by anyone .
25 Clearly , vertical arrangements are not matters which can be left to chance in all circumstances .
26 An early decision was made that use of the system must not be left to chance .
27 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 ) .
28 We do n't want to be left to fight alone again . ’
29 Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists .
30 ‘ The emphasis in working-class families will be on sons and daughters getting a career , ’ added Paul Davies , ‘ and that means courses like English will be left to students from middle-class families . ’
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