Example sentences of "leaving it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years of deliberation , the " Lewis Report " merely recommended more research , leaving it to the enterprise of individual head teachers and their staff to make progress in this field . |
| 2 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 3 | It was not held , and the decision does not involve , that when a body of trustees receive income of the trust estate not taxed at the source and proceed to distribute it among beneficiaries , they are not assessable to Income Tax and are bound to pay over the income to the beneficiaries without deduction , leaving it to the Revenue to pursue the beneficiaries . |
| 4 | The circumstances might well be described as ‘ the bank leaving it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank for the purposes of signing the documents . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 6 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 7 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |
| 8 | Yeah I 'm absolutely positive , I remember leaving it on the seat . |
| 9 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 10 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 11 | The amendments provided in particular ( i ) that the word " Socialist " should be removed from the Croatian republic 's name , leaving it as the Republic of Croatia , and that a new flag and coat of arms should be devised ; ( ii ) that the Cyrillic alphabet , still the main medium for the 600,000 Serbs in Croatia ( 4.5 per cent of the republic 's population ) , should be derecognized for most purposes , except in those areas where a majority still used it ; and ( iii ) that the presidency of the republic should be replaced by a new system involving a president and six vice-presidents , while the executive council of the republic should be redesignated as its government . |
| 12 | By closing time the place was like an alcoholic Turkish bath , and leaving it for the trip over Stonesdale Moor in the lashing rain was a sore wrench indeed . |
| 13 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 14 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 15 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 16 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 17 | It 's no good leaving it till the end of the season . ’ |