Example sentences of "[noun sg] to allow [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A LISTED Wesleyan chapel facade was blown up with gelignite in an abortive attempt to allow a hard-pressed property developer to build flats in its place , Mr Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , told Plymouth Crown Court yesterday .
2 A LISTED Wesleyan chapel facade was blown up with gelignite in an abortive attempt to allow a hard-pressed property developer to build flats in its place , Mr Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , told Plymouth Crown Court yesterday .
3 They will be invited to vote on the Ford takeover terms and also to change the company 's articles of association to allow a single investor to buy more than 15 per cent of the shares at an extraordinary meeting scheduled for December 1 .
4 Mosaic is a small pebble effect , in five duet-tone pastel colourways , available in a 2m width to allow a seam-free fit in most bathrooms .
5 When he reached Thomas Street he backed into a deep doorway to allow the boisterous crowd to pass by .
6 Examining the twentieth century was like having to apply a quota to allow the underprivileged into college .
7 The bass possesses a surprising variety of tones thanks to those aforementioned pickup selection switches ; in the same cluster there 's also a ‘ tone ’ switch to allow the low end to dominate .
8 The setting is the tea-room of the Ritz and the dress is slinky — a tight black jersey number , split at the side to allow a long , black-stockinged leg to be flourished with full drama .
9 One of the features of the plan is a proposal to allow a foreign company to monitor the timber industry .
10 Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course .
11 The potentiometer is a stable cermet multi-turn type to allow the high resolution setting required at the highest sensitivity .
12 The congress also voted in favour of amending the Basic Law to allow the German armed forces to participate in UN " blue beret " humanitarian and peacekeeping operations .
13 It then requests that the DC(s) be activated via the specified package to allow the referenced modules to be changed .
14 But probably his overriding motive was the concern to preserve a symbolic integrity by scrupulously honouring the pledge that he had often made during the war to allow the French people to choose their own institutions .
15 Even without this complication , however , the need to allow the transcriptional machinery access to the DNA without permanently disrupting its protein packaging is a demanding one .
16 A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 .
17 Only Leicestershire had the soil type and climate to allow a comfortable change of enterprise .
18 An appeal against Langbaurgh planners ' refusal to allow a hot food takeaway premises at 46 West Road , Loftus , to operate on Sundays between 7pm and 11pm has been dismissed .
19 The Nationalrat approved on Sept. 16 by 147 votes to 14 the introduction of a constitutional amendment to allow a civilian form of military service .
20 MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down .
21 If the claim is presented late , the tribunal has a discretion to allow a late claim to be submitted if it was ‘ not reasonably practicable ’ for the Applicant to present it in time ( EPCA 1978 section 67(2) ) .
22 At the policy committee Coun. Tony Richmond , Conservative group leader , accused Labour of ratting on an earlier pledge to allow the disabled access .
23 Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately .
24 Opening the glazed hatch above her head to allow the cool night air into the small cabin , Polly threw off her tracksuit , pulled on a clean thigh-length baggy T-shirt , and slid into her sleeping-bag .
25 Secondly , Panzer has noticed solution forms at the base of several small isolated rocks , which would not have sufficient surface area to allow a large amount of surface water to collect .
26 Critics accused the government of giving way to pressure from industrialists and exporters and of reneging on its formal commitment to allow the full discipline of the market to make domestic companies more efficient and competitive .
27 Patients with acute complications of gall bladder stones , were similarly managed by drainage to allow the acute inflammation to resolve before stone extraction was attempted .
28 Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days .
29 The Instigator provides frequency response to allow an open backed cab to sound like a sealed cab .
30 Inhabitants of the stricken city taking refuge in adjacent parts of Lower Franconia , where many had relatives , asked ‘ how it was possible for the Führer to allow a systematic destruction of our German Fatherland ’ .
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