Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 2 | By this time , however , the military crisis was over , and Henry abruptly demanded that Anselm should either comply with his wishes or leave the country . |
| 3 | Cross-examined by Herbert Kerrigan , QC , Mr Taylor denied making up his story or leaving his former job because of ill-feeling with the accused . |
| 4 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 5 | When we got outside , I was n't sure whether to shut the door on the latch or leave it ajar for the nurse . |
| 6 | The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years . |
| 7 | On May 2 Arpad Göncz was elected Országgyülés Speaker and acting President , pending a decision on whether to hold a direct presidential election or leave the choice to the Országgyülés . |
| 8 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Doctors involved with treating the infertile will leave the field or leave the country ; many countries are only too willing to tap our expertise . ’ |
| 10 | When the child goes off to university or leaves home |
| 11 | No doubt if such a condition were not written into the Act , the trial judge and the House of Lords would have regard to the significance of the adoption of the procedure for litigants and to their wishes in exercising their respective discretions to grant a certificate or leave to appeal . |
| 12 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 13 | Nepalese sources and exiled Bhutanese opposition groups accused the Bhutan government of forcing ethnic Nepalese to accept Bhutanese culture and religion or leave the country [ see p. 38534 ] . |
| 14 | Donations/gifts for the raffle and tombola stall please contact : , , any member of the Lourdes Association or leave with Tommy McLoughlin at the Irish Centre . |
| 15 | So first thing every morning , the shrew trots round the course , clearing away any twigs or leaves that might have fallen across it with side-swipes of its delicate fore-legs . |
| 16 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 17 | It coats the artichoke or leaves in a rich and langourous fashion . |
| 18 | Tel : 071 737 3906 — ask for Angie or leave a message . |
| 19 | Be firm , and tell him that he must either pull his weight or leave . |
| 20 | You 're always saying it 's antisocial for people to have second homes or leave property empty . |
| 21 | This latter exclusion was construed to mean that if someone did n't tighten up a bolt properly during maintenance or left a spanner in the works , which resulted in damage to the plant , then no cover would have been applicable . |
| 22 | Claudia wished she could stop shaking ; the touch of his hard body against hers had started up a whirlpool of emotion that left her wanting to run until she had put miles between them . |
| 23 | Often we are baffled , because having found love it then eludes us ; there is no permanence , only loss that leaves us wanting . |
| 24 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 25 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 26 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 27 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 28 | The entire ambience of ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion ’ is that of a live performance , a natural echo that leaves all the noises of amplifiers crackling , valves popping and equipment being shouldered on the tape as if to say , this is for real ! |
| 29 | ‘ The fault that leaves six thousand ton a log upon the sea . ’ |
| 30 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |