Example sentences of "[subord] leaving [art] " in BNC.

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1 Replace the habit with something else rather than leaving a void .
2 Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) .
3 Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk .
4 A careful , just and public system of this kind may be a fairer way of deciding between competing bids for scarce resources than leaving the fate of an elder to the personal impressions or abilities of a practitioner .
5 Where Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) are unable to find a social explanation for gender differences , for instance , as with female-male differences in aggression , they resort to biology , rather than leaving the issue open .
6 But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour .
7 Traffic 's director Jorgen Thomsen draws attention to the responsibility of the tropical timber consuming countries , along with the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) , to find effective solutions rather than leaving the responsibility to the producing countries .
8 Economic power is political power , and it makes no sense to implement the principle of equality in respect of votes while leaving every other form of political power to be distributed according to the gross inequities of the capitalist market .
9 The government was criticized for referring an agreed bid , while leaving a hostile bid free to proceed .
10 Employing a short biliary balloon to remove the old stent while leaving a guide wire in place is an alternative technique .
11 Peter Ackroyd has here performed the not impossible feat of plagiarising himself — while leaving the reader in doubt as to whether the writer shares this implausible estimate of Chatterton 's marvellous buoyancy .
12 Second , they give users a microcomputer-style interface while leaving the applications , and the host computers on which they are running , in the control of the data processing department .
13 In all the examples cited so far the dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition has taken the form of showing that certain procedures abolish the latter while leaving the former intact .
14 ‘ There are 13 different floor levels in the building , ’ Phil Wren claims — the result of creating five floors out of three in the studios , while leaving the south-west administration block , with its library , accounts and research department , at its original three .
15 In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position .
16 Some local parents were complaining that teachers correct some wrong spellings , while leaving the majority untouched , so as not to upset the child .
17 Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact .
18 The first cleaning happens right out there in the orchard , because many of the harvesters have fans that blow sticks and other debris away while leaving the nuts to fall into their trailer .
19 This described Dutch society as one in which liberal consensus has smothered over expressions of homophobia , while leaving the underlying heterosexism intact .
20 Naturally I picked it up , performed a couple of swift and immaculate arabesques , culminating in a precise , sharp crack which removed the butter from her crumpet while leaving the jam undisturbed .
21 All wear the same type of loose shroud , a garment similar to a long nightshirt with draw-strings at the neck and wrists and a cuff deep enough to cover the hand while leaving the fingers exposed .
22 Moreover , the north shore of the strait consisted mainly of steep sandy cliffs , rising from the sea to a height of 30–90m/100–300ft , terrain that provided ideal cover and artillery sites for the Turks , while leaving the invaders perilously exposed .
23 For example , in practice it is extremely difficult to make a brain lesion that entirely removes one part of the brain while leaving the rest intact ; they are either too large or too small .
24 To the contrary , by bringing the Bank officially to the centre of policy-making while leaving the nature of the membership of its Court and the pattern of its recruitment largely unchanged , the Bank was allowed to do the capturing .
25 For instance , a corporation may have clear strong central guidelines on financial targets while leaving the subsidiary companies free to choose how to achieve them .
26 Much better that the simpler jobs be handled by word processors with intelligent formatting systems while leaving the complex work to those trained to handle it .
27 The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas .
28 In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency .
29 The order increases the lower rate of SSP by the full retail prices index increase of 4.1 per cent. , from £43.50 to £45.30 a week , while leaving the higher rate unchanged at £52.50 .
30 Marseille beat Valenciennes 1–0 , to virtually seal the title , while leaving the losers threatened with relegation .
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