Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] enable " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The errors of constructivist rationalism stem from the belief that reason alone enables human beings to construct society anew .
3 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 ’ .
4 A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide .
5 Lord Chesterfield , when discussing ‘ useful prejudices … which I should be very sorry to see removed ’ a little after the previous war , had declared that ‘ that silly , sanguine notion , which is firmly entertained here , that one Englishman can beat three Frenchmen , encourages and has sometimes enabled one Englishman in reality to beat two . ’
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