Example sentences of "allowed [art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 2 | This work went ahead , although rather slowly , and allowed the tunnelling to begin at the same time . |
| 3 | If support teachers are alert to the possibilities within their role , and allowed the flexibility to operate at the individual or whole-class level , then support for individual children can offer a way through to improving the quality of learning for all ( see , for example , Hodgson et al. |
| 4 | They should be made to correspond more closely with private sector practice and allowed the freedom to borrow from the market place , the group says . |
| 5 | This allowed the administration to extend to the Soviet Union credit guarantees worth up to US$1,000 million to buy US agricultural produce . |
| 6 | The Fenland ( covering Cambridgeshire , Isle of Ely , Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough ) was without a tutor-organiser from the time Frank Cossey resigned in July 1956 until the appointment of Robert Darby in July 1959 : here it was the decision not to reappoint in Essex following Collingwood 's departure at the end of 1957 which allowed the District to negotiate with the Ministry for a new tutor-organiser to be assigned to the Fenland instead . |
| 7 | The Grosvenor Estate 's management blamed vandalism for the spill from the outset , saying that someone had deliberately opened a valve in the 1,000-gallon tank at Aldford Hall Farm and allowed the diesel to leak into the river . |
| 8 | Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table . |
| 9 | Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman 's wet grey eyes , and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable . |
| 10 | She allowed the silence to hum on the line , hoping it might make Christine Mills understand how ridiculous she sounded . |
| 11 | However , certain executive members stress that the decision by the three Cabinet members to resign was provoked by the strong views expressed by Mr Salmond when summing up the debate and the motion which still allowed the MPs to vote with the Tories again . |
| 12 | Jefferson allowed the words to hang in the air . |
| 13 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 14 | This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has . |
| 15 | One great advantage which he claimed for Realism was that it allowed the analyst to dispense with the motives and intentions of the decision-makers . |
| 16 | Rory , using this , allowed the car to swing over the white line , invited all the hard lads and the death-wishers to flash and honk and snarl at him . |
| 17 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 18 | Theodora allowed the beam to travel round the room . |
| 19 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 20 | In addition , staff kept a running record of activities and the names of parents involved since this allowed a picture to emerge of the differing patterns of family involvement and , in particular , served as a check that no one was completely left out . |