Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to allow the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 2 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 3 | This serves not only to allow the University to contribute towards the revitalization of the economic life of the province , but to develop courses that relate directly to contemporary society . |
| 4 | Such a short period is hardly enough to allow the development of mature and coherent styles of usage . |
| 5 | Ideally the agent should reduce bleeding sufficiently to allow the patient to undergo surgery without the need for blood transfusion and should obviate the risk of postoperative anaemia . |
| 6 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 7 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 8 | Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run . |
| 9 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |