Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] left to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , if you have a strong need for the company of others then a technical research job where you are largely left to your own devices may prove stressful — unless you do a lot of extra-curricular socialising as compensation . |
| 2 | They are normally left to ‘ sweat ’ for ten days in small heaps in the field , covered with the leaves , before being carted to the clamp . |
| 3 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 4 | It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , they told us it 's best left to professional fund-raisers . |
| 6 | Still , it is largely left to material from church archives to suggest the use of records in the vernacular on a considerable scale . |
| 7 | It is usually left to the parents to finance the shortfall and it can easily cost £10,000 today for a student to attend a three-year higher education course . |
| 8 | It is often left to professional counsellors like social workers and therapists to help the disabled person and their family cope with reality . |
| 9 | It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions . |
| 10 | It is then left to the individual local authority to make the best use it can of the sum granted to it , under an overall obligation to maintain standards of services by comparison with those in other areas . |
| 11 | It is now left to the individual to choose whether to work longer hours , and those willing to work on Sunday can continue to do so . |
| 12 | it is now left to the discretion of the accountant to decide the scope of the inspection necessary to verify that the RICS member 's accounting system complies with RICS members ' accounts regulation 11 ; |
| 13 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 14 | However , an international conference on school transport in Strasbourg decided that , despite the good safety record of buses and coaches , supervision was a particular problem because it was generally left to the driver , whose priorities obviously lay elsewhere . |
| 15 | Paperwork was usually the least enjoyed part of farming and it was invariably left to wives . |
| 16 | The methods by which men were chosen remain obscure ; it was probably left to the village assembly to decide who should serve , and no doubt much bribery and corruption attended the process . |
| 17 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |
| 18 | In Britain , it was mainly left to social anthropology among the social sciences to sustain a theoretical development based on empirical research . |
| 19 | ‘ It was always left to you , you know . |
| 20 | After Fowler went , Davis broke Terry 's left arm , the uneven bounce having deceived the batsman , and then once again it was all left to Lamb . |
| 21 | It was therefore left to Lear to realise the full potential of lithography , and to revolutionise bird illustration in the process . |