Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We should take a radical approach to the position of elderly people beyond the year 2000 , and consider whether technology can allow them to enjoy a better standard of living and to rely less on residential and nursing homes . |
2 | In a historic test case his parents Allan and Barbara , along with Airedale Regional Health Authority , are seeking a change in the law that would allow them to disconnect the feeding tube and let Tony die . |
3 | However , do n't allow them to prevent a good view of the face — for example , the constantly wagging first finger in front of the mouth . |
4 | Tamayo said he would , but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality . |
5 | The farmers were efficient but the size of the unit did not allow them to make a full-time living . |
6 | This will allow them to make a substantial contribution to the local economy by utilising and developing their particular skills . |
7 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
8 | But why do n't you allow them to run a similar course there because it would mean more student members |
9 | Again , they are prevented from recommending any particular firm , but many will allow you to put a brief piece in their list of referral solicitors saying what your particular area of work is . |
10 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battle-worthy force . |
11 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battle-worthy force . |
12 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battleworthy force . |
13 | There 's no real numerical significance , it 's not even an exact number of megabytes of memory , but it does allow you to achieve a 115 line screen at 60 levels of grey which , according to the greylevel versus screen value chart that we use seems to be a critical point . |
14 | Plumage differences do allow you to distinguish the young birds born last summer , which retain some of the brown juvenile wing coverts . |
15 | Your first attempts afloat will be controlled by the instructor who will allow you to practise the new techniques before returning to the simulator for coaching . |
16 | But it would not allow one to predict the detailed sequence of changes in any run . |
17 | Which pair of measurements for ( a ) will allow him to use the least amount of steel edging ? |
18 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
19 | His portrayal is the only real entertainment in a right load of old cobblers which has George Corraface as the Genoese explorer who finally gets Queen Isabella ( Rachel Ward ) to stump up the cash which will allow him to seek an alternative route to the spice-rich Indies . |
20 | The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 . |
21 | It was Owen who took up the challenge of modernizing the argument from design in a way that would allow it to incorporate the innovative aspects of transcendental anatomy . |
22 | He spoke about the Jews in an Egyptian context , though the fragment preserved by Diodorus and quoted by Photius does not allow us to see the exact place of the Jewish excursus in the plan of his book . |
23 | Just like it does not allow us to sing an old song that was sung often , Show Me The Road And The Miles To Dundee perhaps that 's the song we should be singing just now in these particular circumstances and be it the day , maybe even in Portsmouth this particular day . |
24 | An equivalent medical prognosis would be pessimistic to say the least , and it is time now to explore alternatives which will allow us to approach the 21st Century with confidence instead of indecision and fear . |
25 | The problem is that the research does not allow us to distinguish the relative usefulness of the different interventions or their component parts . |
26 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
27 | The money generated by this scheme will be substantial and so will allow us to make a major impact on high priority environmental and conservation tasks . |
28 | ‘ So why , ’ Benjamin asked , ‘ did n't you allow us to interrogate the real Taplow ? ’ |