Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 2 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 3 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 4 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 5 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 6 | There is certainly every justification for trying this approach since it allows you to bring into the open the nature of the problem which is worrying you . |
| 7 | Move one of the program group boxes off the edge of the screen and scroll bars will appear allowing you to scroll through the full area of the desktop . |
| 8 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 9 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |
| 10 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 11 | For a fleeting second she allowed herself to revel in the unaccustomed feeling of having the upper hand over him . |
| 12 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 13 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 14 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 15 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 16 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 17 | So this then , all o a th these techniques when applied erm er er as an ensemble then all allow you to look at the single channel currents , the currents flowing through any given channel , and as well as the effects of external and internal regulators . |
| 18 | Choose phones which have generously sized earmuffs as they will keep out the direct sound and allow you to concentrate on the audio signal itself . |
| 19 | However , the baby is equipped with mechanisms which allow it to respond to the physical difficulties of birth — the breathing response etc. — and it is probable that mechanisms also exist to cope with the circumstances of being thrust into a new world . |
| 20 | They would sip sherry or port , nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness . |
| 21 | Gerard handed Katherine her cup , and Mr Lee took a certain small pleasure in allowing him to pass over the second cup , even though he could have easily reached out and taken it . |
| 22 | This method of locating those with power , the ‘ reputational method ’ , was presumed to allow one to see behind the democratic facade of the formally democratic institutions of American government and locate those who really held political power . |
| 23 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 24 | A moving map display made for GA aircraft by the Digital Sky division of U.S. electronics company Thermwood Inc has recently been modified to allow it to interface with the well-known Stormscope WX10A . |
| 25 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 26 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 27 | The interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF ) is shown pointing southward , allowing it to reconnect with the northward-pointing ‘ closed ’ geomagnetic field lines(c) at a neutral line ( X ) in the subsolar magnetopause . |
| 28 | The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here . |
| 29 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 30 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |