Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the first woman to receive such an honour , and it had to be accepted by Professor Bonney on her behalf , since women were not allowed to attend meetings of the society . |
| 2 | Not at all , no padre in the British army is allowed to carry arms by the Geneva convention . |
| 3 | ‘ I do believe that in addition to selling religious materials like bibles , Chelmsford cathedral and other churches should be allowed to sell guidebooks to the cathedral , postcards of the cathedral and other ancillary items on a Sunday . |
| 4 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 5 | But then , there might be joints of meat and the ice-cream and all the desserts and all the all , I mean , we have had fresh veg , we 're not allowed to put peas on the carvery . |
| 6 | A pamphleteer opposing a " too generous " Poor Law in 1786 , noting that paupers were too easily allowed to build cottages on the waste and install themselves to become eventual burdens on the rates , remarked , " Happily the justices of the peace have no legal authority to augment the number of our cottages . |
| 7 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 8 | As there were now objections to receiving them , and as the guardians were not allowed to send out-patients from the workhouse , the committee were considering stopping the payments and providing an adequate infirmary at the workhouse — an arrangement which might have ‘ many advantages , pecuniary and otherwise ’ . |
| 9 | But it is symptomatic of the greater tolerance of the Muslims that the Jewish community was allowed to return to Jerusalem and four Christian priests were allowed to hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 10 | Amy was allowed to invite friends to the White House pool but security guards were never far away , and many of her holidays were spent travelling the world with her parents . |
| 11 | But they were not allowed to take readings off the island of Novaya Zemlya , a former Soviet nuclear testing site . |
| 12 | They were not allowed to take passengers on the river . |
| 13 | They used to have a profitable business rearing surplus Friesian heifer calves for sale in-calf. but since TB was found in their herd in January 1986 they have had two periods at Whalley Farm , Whittington , near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , when they were not allowed to move cattle off the farm , except for immediate slaughter . |
| 14 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |
| 15 | Governors at Heworth Primary School in York have applied to the city council to be allowed to make alterations to the building to form an upper storey and to install a fire escape . |
| 16 | Submissions were made that a life prisoner whose case is being referred to the judges under the ‘ first ’ consultation procedure ought to be allowed to make representations to the judges with the object of limiting his tariff , and further that the material to be placed before the judges should also be available for examination by the prisoner . |
| 17 | Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees . |
| 18 | In broad terms , the paper argues that as each nation has different economic priorities , it should be allowed to cut emissions in the way that seems easiest to it . |