Example sentences of "leave a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 2 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 3 | Tony Willis said : ‘ If I was going to leave a message it would be ‘ people management ’ . |
| 4 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 5 | When the police and security forces ordered the protesters to leave a wide street near the Gethsemane Church they drowned out the order by chanting ‘ We are the people ! |
| 6 | Not a single articulate foreigner penetrated the Smolensk or Kursk gubernii to leave a record behind . |
| 7 | It was caused by the IRA , which had chosen that week to leave a couple of bombs on British Rail mainline stations . |
| 8 | She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture . |
| 9 | These initially hair-like fibres seek out and feed off the cellulose in the wood which is digested by the fungus to leave a dry , desiccated and fragile shell of wood-fibre or lignin which , in the absence of the cementitious cellulose , can not continue to perform any structural role required of the timber . |
| 10 | So ‘ extended ’ farms will have to leave a wide strip of unsown soil in each field , and let the hedges grow . |
| 11 | We might feel inclined to say : Well , that is a pity , but it would be a greater evil to interfere ; it would be worse to make the law uncertain than to leave a particular hardship unredressed . |
| 12 | Is it really necessary for a person to leave a body behind , a body that must be buried in the ground or thrown into a fire ? |
| 13 | He wished he could instruct Eleanor to leave a hair grip , but she did n't use any . |
| 14 | The simplest way to encourage this is to push a bamboo cane into the ground to leave a sloping hole 5–6in deep , inserting the tip of the shoot into this and treading firm . |
| 15 | It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet . |
| 16 | THE Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society could lose its annual grant from Wirral Council because a disabled woman was asked to leave a concert . |
| 17 | Where a wider space is available beside the house , you can put up a wider , detached garage , perhaps sited with one wall on the boundary of your property , to leave a pathway between it and the house . |
| 18 | The new lightweight trimmer will accurately cut wet or dry wallpaper flush to skirting boards , ceilings , light switches and any awkward corner or window frame , to leave a perfect smooth edge . |
| 19 | The excess is easily peeled away to leave a perfect matching join . |
| 20 | The softer stones of ancient cathedrals show how deeply it may cut ; and the rock from which the Sphinx was carved may have first been roughly shaped by desert winds , for the general outline follows precisely the aerodynamic flow of air over obstacles , swirling away at the end to leave a mass for the head ; and there are many rocks of similar form elsewhere . |
| 21 | If you want to go sailing , play volleyball or have a round of mini golf it wo n't cost you a penny and the kids can be left in the Pirates Club while you spend the afternoon doing things you want to do … but you may have a job persuading them to leave a few hours later . |
| 22 | Surely it 's your duty to leave a record , to leave a sign , nothing else need concern you . |
| 23 | Surely it 's your duty to leave a record , to leave a sign , nothing else need concern you . |
| 24 | And he 's not to leave a bee-sting in it to prick me ! ’ |
| 25 | There he proposed to leave a radio truck for communications with the rear . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 27 | Threatened with imminent closure — his prime Liverpool city centre ramp was needed for something far less interestin' — Neil Danns threw a skate jam/party to leave a few good memories of what , despite the ramp 's inadequacies was the focus of the local skate scene . |
| 28 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 29 | To leave a habitat to degenerate and perhaps be destroyed is to injure all its animals , including of course the species concerned . |
| 30 | It is used in bureaux for reference purposes and for checking case records and may be positioned by the telephone and used for telephone advice , because some consider it inappropriate to leave a caller while the adviser looks further afield for information . |