Example sentences of "leave [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 2 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 3 | I am inclined to leave it at that . |
| 4 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 5 | He is not content , however , to leave it at that : to recognise that the perception of and attention to objectivity varies culturally while claims to objectivity itself are often more biased than is realised . |
| 6 | Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types , it would be waste to leave it at that . |
| 7 | Nobody except his lawyers and myself know his whereabouts or have an address and it might be as well to leave it at that . |
| 8 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 9 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 10 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 11 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 12 | " Ah , " said the niece , preparing to leave it at that . |
| 13 | In view of his instructions Fowler decided to leave it at that . |
| 14 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 15 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 16 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 17 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 18 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 19 | Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time . |
| 20 | So , for the moment , we 'll just leave it at that shall we ? ’ |
| 21 | Let's leave it at that . ’ |
| 22 | Can we leave it at that ? |
| 23 | Why do n't we leave it at that ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , let's leave it at that . |
| 25 | Let's leave it at that . ’ |
| 26 | By the time word got out that the whole thing had been a spoof , there was a sizeable demand for the book and , rather than leave it at that , Jean Shepard was persuaded to write the book proper . |
| 27 | I knew she was dead , let's leave it at that . |
| 28 | The Death Of Cool … let's leave it at that |
| 29 | Ca n't we leave it at that ? |
| 30 | ‘ Let's leave it at that . |