Example sentences of "be left to " in BNC.

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1 Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists .
2 In such an unclear area , it was not to be left to Dáil members to decide , irrespective of whether it still remained an appropriate public measure .
3 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
4 Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so .
5 Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country .
6 As it is , he slyly suggests that minor artists may look down their noses at major ones and that ‘ important ’ work may be left to persons of an inferior kennel , like the Russians , the Germans , the Americans , who , poor dears , know no better .
7 If you take the argument about consenting adults to its logical conclusion , that price — Britain 's exchange rate — should be left to them , too .
8 ‘ This is a subject on which judges need , and should have , expert assistance from a clinical psychologist and not be left to flounder through what may be an ill-informed and perfunctory form of inquisition before the child gives evidence . ’
9 First , interest rates are not to be left to market forces and free competition .
10 He cited the decision last week of Chris Patten , Secretary of State for the Environment , last week to turn down the housing development for Foxley Wood in Hampshire , adding : ‘ We have repeatedly said that , wherever possible , decisions of this kind should be left to local people . ’
11 Contrary to declarations that there was no government policy for sterling and that it would be left to the markets to decide , by late 1981 the government intervened to reverse a fall in the exchange rate , and raised base rate to 16 per cent .
12 Other issues — of ‘ low politics ’ — could be left to voluntary groups , the market , or local government .
13 Some other topics , such as the discussion of the Asiatic mode of production and the notion of ideology , will also be left to other parts of the book .
14 He meant , of course , that anything beautiful , anything worthwhile , should not just be left to experts — we should all be in there enjoying it , taking part in it .
15 In 1947 Britain and the US said the matter should be left to the Italian courts .
16 There is , of course , a moral argument in favour of encouraging democracy in the countries of eastern Europe but the choice between a planned economy and an unfettered market must be left to them .
17 ‘ The emphasis in working-class families will be on sons and daughters getting a career , ’ added Paul Davies , ‘ and that means courses like English will be left to students from middle-class families . ’
18 We do n't want to be left to fight alone again . ’
19 Conclusions about criminal or other responsibility should be left to the police or regulatory bodies such as the Bank of England to decide .
20 One suggestion was that discretion should be left to the doctors and that they should tick a box if they wanted the generic drug .
21 The European operation is too damned big a slice of the corporate business to be left to the locals .
22 She did n't want to be left to stand alone in some dark night-time corridor .
23 The Homicide Act 1957 deprived judges of their power to give authoritative rulings on the sufficiency of provocation , and the question must now be left to the jury , which should apply the test of the ‘ reasonable man ’ to everything said or done before the killing which might amount to provocation .
24 In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion .
25 It also rejected the Crown 's argument that the issue of consent should be left to the jury — in the same way as the question of dishonesty is left to them in theft cases — but its actual decision comes fairly close to this position .
26 Children must also learn to be left to their own devices , to take second place on occasions , and to learn by their mistakes .
27 Jiang responded by saying that in 1978 , Deng Xiaoping , then Vice-Premier , said that resolving this issue should be left to the wisdom of future generations .
28 You got environmentalists telling you this land should be left to nature , too poor for sodbusting [ ploughing ] .
29 ‘ The age at which she has the operation may be left to the woman .
30 It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation .
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