Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | Highways are being split down the middle , with special ‘ car pool lanes ’ for vehicles carrying more than two passengers , allowing them to cruise past the traffic jams . |
| 3 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 4 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 5 | They all have structural similarities to the nucleotide building blocks of DNA ( or RNA ) , allowing them to interfere with the replication of viral genetic material . |
| 6 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 7 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 8 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 9 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 10 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 11 | The latter provides references to background reading , allows me to talk around the area concerned , and offers bibliographical suggestions on every topic that arises in the chapter so that you have some idea where to go next if you want to pursue any particular aspect . |
| 12 | If you go for the higher limit , then that allows you to go with the growth of approximately three hundred thousand . |
| 13 | Whilst the interior allows you to sit in the lap of luxury . |
| 14 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 15 | Whether you are going abroad on holiday or business , The Royal Bank of Scotland allows you to relax in the knowledge that everything has been taken care of ; travellers cheques and eurocheques , foreign currency , Access , Visa and travel insurance . |
| 16 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 17 | The product is needed because Tuxedo is so hard to programme , and interfaces have previously had to be written using C. Accell/TP allows you to get to the functionality of Tuxedo using procedure calls . |
| 18 | A hydraulic ram on the drawbar allows it to move from the offset working position to directly behind the tractor for road transport . |
| 19 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 20 | An odd , and possibly unique feature of the statue is that the horse 's tail hangs from a ball-and-socket joint which allows it to sway in the wind . |
| 21 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 22 | It crosses the boundaries of the organization and allows us to differentiate between the power of members ( e.g. those employed ) and non-members ( those external to the organization ) . |
| 23 | But , unlike them , it seems , Dickinson cherished in matters sexual , as in much else , an ambiguity which , for Bennett , is one of her greatest strengths : ‘ For it allows us to identify with the speaker 's feelings , whether or not we share their cause … . |
| 24 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 25 | I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect . |
| 26 | Alexei allowed himself to dwell upon the knowledge which he had retained from that long-ago survey briefing . |
| 27 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 28 | For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said . |
| 29 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |
| 30 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |