Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] enable [pers pn] " 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 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 .
7 The Tories proposed the idea of allowing schools to opt out to enable them to get away from ‘ loony left'authorities .
8 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 .
9 The panel pattern template is wanted primarily to enable you to mark the ripstop .
10 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 .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 Our existing funding arrangements do not enable us to provide assistance to visiting researchers from the Community or elsewhere .
14 For nurse Val Coulson , a step off the career ladder was taken mainly to enable her to fit work around her children .
15 We ca n't make that observation directly , because our feelings of cold do n't enable us to discriminate temperatures that finely .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely .
21 It does not enable us to say anything directly about the nature of consciousness .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities .
25 It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise .
26 All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under .
27 The model does not enable us to examine the effects of changes in aggregate demand on both output and prices .
28 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
29 She recalled with surprise the energy which had yesterday enabled her to race about the house .
30 The good grip and long handle also enable it to move most nuts that other tools wo n't budge .
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