Example sentences of "leaves much " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this leaves much unexplained : how is the map formed , and how is it used ? |
| 2 | Avoiding the crowded tourist sites still leaves much to see . |
| 3 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 4 | What little service there is at meal times also leaves much to be desired . |
| 5 | Even when used , with effort to avoid evaluative overtones and as a purely descriptive device , psychiatric classification leaves much to be desired ; for example in its inability to distinguish clearly between different varieties of psychosis or draw sharp boundaries between the manifestly and the marginally insane , points we shall have cause to enlarge upon later . |
| 6 | On theoretical grounds , however , it leaves much to be desired . |
| 7 | The edifice built upon those stones — the implementation of the Act — leaves much to be desired , however , as the research of Goacher et al ( 1988 ) makes clear . |
| 8 | The quality of research in the area of child abuse still leaves much to be desired . |
| 9 | Mr Moi 's human-rights record still leaves much to be desired . |
| 10 | While the lot of the average prisoner leaves much to be desired , that of the criminal lunatic is much worse . |
| 11 | It is potentially one of the most edifying aspects of our society , a great asset in terms of building a positive image , but the behaviour of some of the people working in this profession , evident in the sort of bad manners quoted above , leaves much to be desired . |
| 12 | My main complaint about this set is that CRD have no properly updated the notes , and the actual printing of the booklet leaves much to be desired . |
| 13 | The approach outlined here leaves much still to be investigated . |
| 14 | Although the drafting of the statutes leaves much room for argument ( as this case has shown ) it seems to me that reading the statutes as a whole 65 is fixed as the retiring age for a member of the academic staff . |
| 15 | The latter criteria obviously has a lot to do with the type of printer that you choose , but several notation programs give a printout that leaves much to be desired — even when the printer is a top of the range laser . |
| 16 | I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities . |
| 17 | The time needed to bring an innovation to the market is nearly always longer than the layman imagines and the accuracy of forecasts by those in the business leaves much to be desired . |
| 18 | The quality of staff for the type of work proposed ‘ often leaves much to be desired ’ . |
| 19 | Nevertheless there is one area in which the Keynesian model leaves much to be desired in its treatment of aggregate supply . |
| 20 | The standard of reporting by Simon Turnbull and , to a lesser extent , Clive Hetherington , leaves much to be desired when they are covering Newcastle United . |