Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the training difficulties encountered with dogs in later life can be traced back to allowing them to exert a subtle dominance over you at any early stage , while they are puppies . |
| 2 | To motivate students by allowing them to share a common experience . |
| 3 | It is far better , for the sake of peace and quiet , to ‘ give them their head ’ within reason , without allowing them to get a total stranglehold on your time . |
| 4 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
| 5 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 6 | This allows them to generate a plausible pronunciation for a non-word like ‘ blasp ’ , but means that they can not pronounce many irregular words correctly . |
| 7 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 8 | The species of the genus Atta and Acromyrmex cultivate ( possibly different strains of ) a basidiomycete fungus , Attamyces bromatificus , which allows them to overcome a wide range of plant defences and to be polyphagous in a diverse environment . |
| 9 | Flcopy is a utility that allows you to copy a large file across a number of floppies . |
| 10 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 11 | In many cases , however , neglecting the data from a probe containing a repeat allows one to find a correct connection to elongate the contig ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 12 | ESAT 's licence allows it to offer a full range of satellite services , with the exception of speech telephony . |
| 13 | It is only the knowledge of a Sovereign Lord , interested in our well-being , that allows anyone to develop a logical stand against selfishness . |
| 14 | This may well be pulsed rather than continuous in its output , which allows us to use a gated detector , discriminating between prompt fluorescent emission and delayed phosphorescence . |
| 15 | Even this preliminary comparison , therefore , allows us to predict a fruitful interchange of ideas among those interested in second language acquisition and those involved in the training in BSL skills . |
| 16 | But the fact is music touches us physically and emotionally and any music that allows us to achieve a transcendent state of mind is evocative of a new age . |
| 17 | As well as being simpler , this allows us to follow a historical sequence which leads up to serialism . |
| 18 | This approach allows us to offer a coherent politics , allying ourselves with people 's aspirations while fulfilling our true purpose of advancing the wider and longer-term interests of the whole community . |
| 19 | If he does not , then it is up to him to resign , which avoids any problems with unfair dismissal and allows us to recruit a new chef who will start with a clear idea of his position and responsibilities . |
| 20 | The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems . |
| 21 | The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems . |
| 22 | The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems . |
| 23 | The companies had sought to merge their fleets on the currently lucrative Dover , Folkestone and Ramsgate routes to France which would have fixed prices at one level and allowed them to operate a single timetable . |
| 24 | Beauty , of course , and Art , also needed warmth of feeling , there was no getting away from it … and , in passing , he allowed himself to feel a cautious contempt for the greedy merchants of England for whom the Exhibition had been an apotheosis . |
| 25 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 26 | Dubček 's undoing was supposing that his personal stature allowed him to adopt a creative notion of his responsibilities and depart from the orthodox notion of these things . |
| 27 | In front of Fraser , Ramsay himself had to be more restrained than he would have wished , but at least Agnes 's cheerful kisses allowed him to bestow a like greeting on her sister , Fraser looking on somewhat askance . |
| 28 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 29 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
| 30 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |