Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to allow [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 2 | In some samples of stereoregular or symmetrical polymers , the degree of three-dimensional ordering of the chains may be sufficiently high to allow a structural analysis of the polymer to be accomplished . |
| 3 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 4 | Some may seek to argue that a lesser crime is committed , because they would like the law to be sufficiently flexible to allow the ‘ mercy-killer ’ to avoid facing a charge of murder . |
| 5 | Language is sufficiently flexible to allow the construction of an infinite variety of singular terms which do not designate any entity . |
| 6 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 7 | First , I suggest to you that it may be morally permissible to allow a baby to die by non-intervention . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the strength of these aluminous porcelains was only sufficient to allow the system to be used at the front of the mouth and less aesthetic materials had to be used for molar teeth . |
| 9 | George Spotswood observed that the Irish Union , while recognising the problem of time-wasting in the scrum , is nevertheless keen to allow the side with a stronger scrummage to take advantage of it . |
| 10 | This sample size is just sufficient to allow a limited number of measurements to be done . |
| 11 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 12 | Cut the hole at each side just sufficient to allow the patch to be passed through . |
| 13 | Chill for 2 hours or preferably overnight to allow the flavours to improve ; remove the cinnamon stick from the sauce and serve . |
| 14 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 15 | It is more difficult to allow a teacher to develop his own themes if the head of department is the tutor . |
| 16 | The range and scale of discovery sought is not perhaps strictly relevant , but in practice courts were more ready to allow the use of discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when relatively modest demands were made . |
| 17 | ( Moreover , since it is costly to acquire information , it may be socially desirable to allow an element of slack . ) |
| 18 | Are the standards which the Secretary of State will accept as sufficient to allow a buy-out proposal to go ahead those of TOPS or the standards of schemes run by Stagecoach and other private sector operators ? |
| 19 | Ministers , therefore , were airily content to allow the Europhobes on both sides of the Commons to let off steam in the twilight zone of arcane — and effectively futile — argument as the bill made its gruelling passage through committee stage . |
| 20 | Listings are then prepared to allow the assessor to undertake the task with the best possible information . |
| 21 | This is the path generally chosen by visitors going to Coiruisg , and once the hill-top is reached , the guides are quite contented to allow the visitor to see a small comer of lake . |
| 22 | It is sometimes useful to allow the Set or Reset condition to take effect only when a pulse is applied to a third input called the Clock ( Ck ) . |
| 23 | Although chalk is a very pure limestone it is mechanically too weak to allow the development of large underground cavities . |
| 24 | The absence of any authentic Spanish or Portuguese text of any of the Hague Conventions militates against their acceptance in Latin America ( and is responsible in part for the limited number of South American states which are members of the Hague Conference ) , and the Latin American attachment to the Letters Rogatory procedure proved too strong to allow a more broadly-based solution in that region . |
| 25 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 26 | Cusick 's original construction drawing had the midriff too narrow to allow the skirt flats to meet smoothly and so the midriff was widened . |
| 27 | It recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat to Darlington , saying it was too early to allow the economic barriers erected against the country 's apartheid policies to be brought down . |
| 28 | The bonds were too tight to allow the muscular body any movement , but the bird crossly jerked its head and opened its pointed beak to hiss at Joseph 's fingers . |
| 29 | She wanted to cry out in protest against his charge , but her throat was too tight to allow the words to escape . |
| 30 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |