Example sentences of "allowing [pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The following month the legal process smiled more kindly on Charlie Nicholas when a three year drink driving ban was shortened by a year allowing him to buy a new £11,000 Porsche . |
| 10 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 11 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 12 | Of course , at the simplest possible level the PE spectrum may be used as a fingerprint , allowing us to identify a pure sample or a constituent of a mixture by comparison with known spectra . |
| 13 | However , the master clock can over-ride the pineal , allowing us to maintain a daily rhythm even in constant light or darkness . |