Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] allow [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was explained to me that over the years all the planes on the green sward had landed by mistake , assuming that it would be solid enough to allow a take-off .
2 Forest landowners could not even erect fences or hedges unless they were low enough to allow the deer to enter and leave , consequently crops were often destroyed by them .
3 The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing .
4 Even if someone is physically able to get to and from the toilet and meals unaided , this still allows no time for social care .
5 This curious species is preserved in a fine-grained sandstone as an external mould — that is , all the original shell material has been dissolved away , but this still allows an accurate view of the original organism , especially if an artificial cast is taken from the natural mould .
6 This clearly allows a new transition , in which the odd electron moves from the d z 2 to the empty level , and should also increase the number of bands associated with excitation of an electron from the t 2g to the e g set of levels ( both sets are now split , so several extra bands will appear ) .
7 This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte .
8 This again allows the a.c. signal to pass , whilst preventing the flow of d.c. from pin 6 .
9 This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do .
10 The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate .
11 We do this via some concrete examples , simple enough to allow the logical principle involved to be easily seen .
12 This power in the National Assistance Act ( 1948 ) Part III also allows the authority to buy in places in private and voluntary homes .
13 One tree was large enough to allow a motorcar to pass through it .
14 This ‘ co-operatively rearranging region ’ is large enough to allow a transition to a new conformation , hence is determined by the chain conformation and by definition will equal the sample size at T 2 where only one conformation is available to each molecule .
15 Most units were large enough to allow the son to return to work at home , in which case the wife 's role changed again to that of housewife .
16 The division between the sleeping and run sections is fitted at floor level with a hole just large enough to allow the ferrets easy passage but small enough to prevent them dragging food carcasses from the run section into the sleeping quarters .
17 My own suggestion would be an outside vivarium lined with aluminium and with an escape-proof down-turned lip , meshed over to prevent predation by cats , herons , or rooks , but large enough to allow the animal to catch natural food finding its way in .
18 However , even in nominally constant-density flows it may be possible to introduce density differences which are large enough to allow the use of one of these techniques whilst keeping the internal Froude number high enough for the flow to be unaffected .
19 For shroud tension on the mast , the uppers should be tight , but the lowers should be loose enough to allow the mast to bend in order to enhance sail shape .
20 Since there are usually at least two competing theories for the explanation of an economic relationship , and statistical analysis techniques are not robust enough to allow the rejection of one theory in favour of another , it is inevitable that more than one possible underlying structure may be taken to represent the economic system .
21 The new UCP provision should list the basic requisites of sea waybills , but should be flexible enough to allow the development of incipient electronic or paperless varieties .
22 It is important not to allow a mechanical aid , however powerful , to interfere with the careful specification of analytic goals and the selection of appropriate means of attaining them .
23 The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century .
24 Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own .
25 A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home …
26 So seriously indeed did the Residents take themselves that they were unwilling at first even to allow the stationing of subordinate European officers in the districts .
27 The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats .
28 New rules mean IndyCar must be big enough to allow the driver to tuck his knees up into his chest inside the survival cell if there is a major crash .
29 Last year you were kind enough to allow a skip to be placed in the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish .
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