Example sentences of "[that] allows the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 an on screen mouse operated facility that allows the user to choose from a selection of ‘ tools ’ to create simple geometric shapes — lines , boxes , circles etc. and to add fill patterns .
2 Quick Help for WordPerfect 5.1 from Microref is a TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program that allows the user to access Help for WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS on two levels : Instant Help and Expanded Help .
3 THE computer giant Amstrad yesterday announced what it said was the world 's first ‘ personal digital assistant ’ — a pocket-sized computer that allows the user to write directly on to the screen with a special pen .
4 So it 's often sheer neglect on the part of the home owner that allows the thief to gain entry , and make off with your treasured possessions .
5 It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector .
6 Replace the foam in the filter with something chunky that allows the water to flow through without blocking — Siporax , ceramic pieces or large sized gravel will work well .
7 A page description language is , essentially , a programming language that allows the elements of a page ; type , graphics , rules , scanned photographs , etc , to be described mathematically and reproduced on a printer which is equipped with the appropriate device for understanding the language .
8 A major challenge facing the information industry is to develop the maturity of judgement that allows the utility of the different available media to be accurately and dispassionately matched to the real requirements of information users .
9 Here we are talking about a degree of conscious awareness that allows the individual to understand and control what is happening to him .
10 As in Out , schizophrenic discourse operates as a metaphoric tool that allows the novel to focus , like its concrete counterpart the radio telescope , on the limits of our spatio-temporal universe .
11 There is ( intentionally ) no proper derivatives market that allows the peso to be sold short .
12 Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque .
13 A new type of television service that allows the viewer to select videos on demand is causing friction between cable television companies and British Telecom .
14 But anyway , Newtone claim an unprecedented string life , a tighter , clearer fundamental note and a lower tension-to-pitch that allows the string to vibrate more freely , resulting in unsurpassed playability .
15 Accell/SQL for Windows is the first Windows-based product from Unify that allows the application to run in Microsoft Windows on the client .
16 The latest innovations , used in the production of Elan panels , are Fibreform — a patented process that allows the mat to be pre-formed , outside the mould , into the required shape — and nickel-plated moulds , which improve surface finish and allow heat to be applied to speed curing .
17 A method has been developed that allows the measurement of metabolism in ileocolonoscopic biopsy specimens , and this has been used to assess butyrate and glutamine metabolism in quiescent UC and controls .
18 Herringbroom is not concerned with conquering a technique , however , or showing an impressive facility ; it is about approach , about an attitude that allows the student to evolve , to move forward within his or her own work .
19 A company issues a 9% convertible capital bond that allows the holders to convert into the company 's ordinary shares at a future date .
20 flexibility that allows the tailoring of the office specially to the requirements of the establishment .
21 Simultaneously with clinical observations such as these , academic psychologists were also beginning to incorporate a similar idea into their models of normal cognitive functioning and most contemporary theories of human information processing contain the notion of a mechanism that screens and selects the products of consciousness ; necessarily so , since organised thought would be impossible without some device that allows the mind to choose from among the many stimuli — both internal and external — with which it is constantly bombarded .
22 Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect .
23 Any electronic drawing system that allows the designer to sketch , visualise and change plans or ideas may be said to offer CAD .
24 It is knowledge of these required functions that allows the designer to turn that space into a performing component .
25 There may be some districts that have er areas of countryside which are outside the non- designated areas which they regard as particularly important as erm the gentleman from Selby has said , er and the we have suggested that er there might be a criteria in the policy that allows the quality of the countryside affected by development to be a consideration .
26 The sapiential authority to advise , instruct and direct ; the moral authority that makes its acceptance not just useful but obligatory ; and its charismatic authority that allows the professional to appeal to some supreme interest of his client that not only outranks conscience but sometimes even the raison d'état ( 1977 , pp.17–18 , emphasis added ; see also 1975 ) .
27 A new feature that allows the teacher to control the pace is successful .
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