Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] to allow [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 2 | What does seem likely is that MASSMoCA 's commissioners will petition the governor to release funds incrementally to allow construction to begin . |
| 3 | They are the first tests of legal reforms introduced two months ago to allow judges ' secrecy orders to be reviewed . |
| 4 | The digger was wounding the tubers sufficiently to allow infection . |
| 5 | Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock . |
| 6 | This train , like every other one , was packed to the doors , and when it was left in sidings periodically to allow trains of troops , and ammunition and essential war materials to plod by , the hum of conversation hung about the carriages almost tangibly . |
| 7 | First , launch aid may be seen as a pre-commitment by European governments not to allow Airbus to be bullied out of the industry . |
| 8 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |