Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] allowing [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEFT Obesity is often less a reflection of overfeeding , than not allowing your dog enough exercise . |
| 2 | It is a young woman 's role , in her eyes , to play by society 's rules while not allowing them to define her . |
| 3 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 4 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 5 | It has the advantage of restricting a dog 's more exaggerated movements while still allowing him to eat , drink and in Sam 's case , yawn . |
| 6 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 7 | In the Adagio he sustains his slow tempo with a classical poise while never allowing us to forget , in his cutting definition of the recurrent accompanying triplet motif , the undertones beneath its major-key calm . |