Example sentences of "is leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man upstairs , the first husband whom Maria is to leave , is not ‘ self-aware ’ — unlike Zuckerman , who declares , on behalf of the self-aware , that he has no self and that the self is a joke . |
| 2 | By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone . |
| 3 | The ideal is to leave the ground balanced on the main wheel , and to hold a constant attitude for the first few feet of the launch while the aircraft gains height and speed . |
| 4 | Mrs Lynn Hooper , aged 25 , of Eastleigh , Hampshire , the British Airways stewardess alleged to have sold champagne to passengers , is to leave BA and accept £9,500 compensation . |
| 5 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 6 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 7 | The worst mistake is to leave clothes near the patient when he is unattended : he may fall over if he tries to put them on by himself , as he may not yet have realized that he can not balance and move normally . |
| 8 | I do n't know if you realize what hell it is to leave the life one leads , and go to a new city where one knows no-one and nowhere to go . |
| 9 | The good news is that , even in the minority of cases where the only solution is to leave your job and try your luck elsewhere , it is unusual for a dispute to arise that is so serious that you finish up in front of a judge or an industrial tribunal . |
| 10 | You can get up now , but no one is to leave until I come back , ’ Brown Owl called . |
| 11 | In countries where the practice is officially , if apologetically , accepted , as in Sierra Leone , Zambia or Botswana , revised timings are provided in the official syllabus , but there exists no guide as to what the teacher is to leave out from an already overloaded syllabus . |
| 12 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 13 | ‘ Queen Yolande , ’ he replied , ‘ is to leave on tomorrow 's tide just after dawn . |
| 14 | In this case , not to plant churches is to leave thousands who would hear the gospel through the new church unable to hear it . |
| 15 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 16 | The most elementary way is to leave the material on its original sheets of blotting paper , piling them up on top of each other . |
| 17 | That will only be so if the unbelieving partner is to leave , because at that point the values and foundations of the marriage are shown to be violated and at odds . |
| 18 | A better solution perhaps is to leave the pad out of the filter altogether only using it when necessary . |
| 19 | The combined effect is to leave individual teachers feeling more accountable , but more confused and less supported . |
| 20 | The simplest solution to the problem of stress is to leave the demanding situation . |
| 21 | I think that American trustees have proved themselves to be very powerful in the 1980s ; the British system is to leave power very significantly with the director and the curators . |
| 22 | A third possibility which might be more attractive if you are fairly close to normal retirement age is to leave your pension in your former employer 's scheme . |
| 23 | The easiest procedure is to leave a stem unpruned in early spring , so that a number of lateral side shoots are produced . |
| 24 | The only thing to do , now that I am here , is to leave . |
| 25 | In general , the approach is to leave a project to the first in the field without adequate consideration whether the type of instrument which that body 's work will produce is necessarily the most appropriate . |
| 26 | Thus it is often erroneously supposed that a provision of the Convention which merely prevents it from displacing or affecting a particular legal right thereby effectuates that right , whereas in truth the sole consequence of the provision is to leave the matter to be determined under the applicable national law . |
| 27 | " She is to leave immediately . |
| 28 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 29 | In another round of musical chairs between Orion and Random House , Caroline Michel is to leave her job as marketing director at Orion to join RH at the beginning of May . |
| 30 | A simple solution , not without merit , is to leave the PC on all the time , which ensures a near constant operating temperature . |