Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] enable [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 2 | Some bags use a silicone treated down to enable them to resist damp . |
| 3 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 4 | The new equipment has also enabled them to recover biological samples , including a crab holding eggs tucked under its tail and sponges that are being tested for medically active chemicals . |
| 5 | The charm and naivety he exudes easily enables us to forgive his more sado-masochistic tendencies in movies like last year 's controversial Tie Me Up ! ’ |
| 6 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |
| 7 | For example , the grid can be temporarily turned off to enable you to get a better idea of how the design will look when knitted . |
| 8 | The Tories proposed the idea of allowing schools to opt out to enable them to get away from ‘ loony left'authorities . |
| 9 | Since one has reason to express such an attitude in this way doing so enables one to conform to reasons which apply to one , which is the condition laid down by the normal justification thesis . |
| 10 | A line out lets you connect to a power amp and cabinet , while a speaker-simulating recording out enables you to record , to connect with a PA or , alternatively , your inner soul via headphones . |
| 11 | The panel pattern template is wanted primarily to enable you to mark the ripstop . |
| 12 | It was , doubtless , agreeable for Mary Smith to become more Mary Smith , but that process did not enable her to find a job or make a living . |
| 13 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 14 | Many teachers found that this diet did not enable their pupils to succeed . |
| 15 | He therefore did not know whether , if the contract had been carefully read , the company would have observed that the information provided from the analysis did not enable it to be notified of matters that needed investigation . |
| 16 | At the same time , these categories do not enable one to penetrate the ‘ surface of phenomena ’ … to understand the process and development of economic life as a whole … |
| 17 | Our existing funding arrangements do not enable us to provide assistance to visiting researchers from the Community or elsewhere . |
| 18 | For nurse Val Coulson , a step off the career ladder was taken mainly to enable her to fit work around her children . |
| 19 | We ca n't make that observation directly , because our feelings of cold do n't enable us to discriminate temperatures that finely . |
| 20 | Society members who are at present on our own list would be asked for permission to allow their names to go forward enabling us to take part and benefit . |
| 21 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 22 | Marrying Sukey had admittedly enabled him to buy a string of cracking ponies and build a much-envied yard , but he was increasingly irked by the curbs on his freedom . |
| 23 | Employees with wives who are actively pursuing their own careers are also likely to encounter problems overseas , especially if the wife is forced to give up her job because of her husband 's transfer and her role abroad does not enable her to work or to develop other satisfactory activities . |
| 24 | The receptive field does not enable one to predict the responses to movements of a spot in the directions of the arrows ; these are shown round the outside of the figure . |
| 25 | Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely . |
| 26 | It does not enable us to say anything directly about the nature of consciousness . |
| 27 | This definition , however , does not enable us to say which functions are public functions , but only to give a reason why certain functions are classified as public . |
| 28 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 29 | However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities . |
| 30 | It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise . |