Example sentences of "[vb mod] be left to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he suggests that parliamentary democracy is an egalitarian way of deciding certain policy issues , such as what the criminal laws of a community should be ( Dworkin , 1978a , p. 258 ) , and elsewhere , in respect of a more restricted class of ( moral ) policy issues , he has this to say : ‘ Under certain circumstances that issue should be left to democratic institutions to decide , not because a legislature or parliament will necessarily be correct , but because that is a fair way , in these circumstances , to decide moral issues about which reasonable and fair people disagree ’ ( Dworkin , 1981 , p. 208 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | To the disappointment of the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee , the Lord Chancellor declined to fund a full-time secretariat , claiming that it should be left to local or charitable sources . |
| 4 | The ways in which these topics would be introduced into a PGCE course would be as varied as those already used for other common topics , and this aspect must be left to individual PGCE tutors . |
| 5 | how the other part of space is used could be left to individual departments on the basis that |
| 6 | Other issues — of ‘ low politics ’ — could be left to voluntary groups , the market , or local government . |
| 7 | The details of how such intentions could be realized would be left to local joint planning and financing at the district level : ‘ any proposal to move the balance of care from hospital to community should come from the local level ’ . |
| 8 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
| 9 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |