Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects it fails to answer these issues satisfactorily , although allowing the court to order medical examinations without parental consent legitimizes a position well established on an informal basis amongst the professionals involved . |
| 2 | The notion that MCE somehow models the speech code by allowing the child to see English word order , which can then be internalised , is not theoretically viable . |
| 3 | The roller saddles sit on small threaded shafts within the individual bridge pieces , allowing the user to make slight adjustments to the string spacing , as well as the more normal height and intonation changes . |
| 4 | Under the agreement China would provide the Soviet Union with a commodity loan worth 1,000 million Swiss francs ( US$730 million ) allowing the country to purchase Chinese grain , meat , tea , tobacco , peanuts , textiles and light industrial products . |
| 5 | The merits of an approach allowing the company to seek civil redress are essentially twofold : first , no victim need be identified ; and secondly , an action may be brought in the context of anonymous stock market trades . |
| 6 | The people involved have naively played into Fisons ' hands by allowing the company to divert public attention from its own eco-vandalism " . |
| 7 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 8 | For one thing it increases the length of the margin , allowing the animal to admit more food per unit of length . |
| 9 | Alternatively the basic restored airframe and engine components can be supplied part finished allowing the owner to perform final assembly and painting . |
| 10 | If the above arguments possess cogency , how can control be achieved without review becoming like appeal and without allowing the tribunal to have unlimited power ? |
| 11 | It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen , thus allowing the blood to carry less oxygen . |
| 12 | This presumption was justified on the basis that the grant of the patent ensured a monopoly position allowing the employer to charge higher prices and lawfully prevent others imitating the substance of the invention without permission . |
| 13 | The motor control routine can then be exited , allowing the microprocessor to perform other tasks . |
| 14 | The effects of load torque and inertia are separated at the beginning of acceleration interval by allowing the motor to move several Steps with all phases unexcited ; a system with high load torque and low inertia decelerates but if the load torque is small and the inertia high the velocity remains substantially constant . |
| 15 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |
| 16 | Several additional uses for the computer are described by George E. Mason ( 1983 ) : using the computer to administer diagnostic tests ; letting the child teach the computer ; and using the computer as a " focus for student hostility " ( ! ) . |
| 17 | Illegal traders are using the recession to hawk rip-off clothing , perfume and music tapes . |
| 18 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 19 | The Children 's Hospital of Boston is using the service to develop three applications . |
| 20 | That finding could not be disclosed , for its publication would have revealed the regime 's double dishonesty , in suppressing the truth and in using the incident to justify repressive measures against the liberalizers in the university and to rally the faithful around Franco . |
| 21 | This is generally done by mechanical means , crushing solid plastics and using the residue to make other items . |
| 22 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 23 | Labour has claimed ministers such as Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley , Portillo , and Michael Howard , who were associated with the Thatcherite ‘ no turning back ’ group , have gained wider political support by using the review to reinvigorate Conservative thinking about privatisation and ‘ marketisation ’ . |
| 24 | Finance staff should be using the network to extract financial data from computerised cost centres , such as the library , and cost-centre managers should be able to access up-to-date expenditure and commitment figures on-line . |
| 25 | The microcomputer now presents the school librarian with the opportunity to produce new types of publicity materials and information displays by using the microcomputer to produce electronic notice boards , interactive library guides on screen and school magazines or newspapers either on screen or in hard copy . |
| 26 | G. Scunthorpe ( 66 000 people ) is a town which was created solely for the iron and steel industry and for heavy engineering , using the steel to build such things as cranes and sections for bridges . |
| 27 | In a trial each subject stands to benefit ( though in the event no benefit may arise or there may even be risk of harm ) , but in non-preventive or non-therapeutic research the experimental subject is simply assisting the researcher to obtain biological data — for example , how a particular drug is excreted . |
| 28 | In a unanimous ruling the court deemed that the couple 's acceptance of $170,000 from Wedtech , in return for assisting the corporation to win federal contracts , did not amount to extortion . |
| 29 | In Non-preventive or non-therapeutic research the experimental subject is simply assisting the research to obtain biological data |
| 30 | Helping the sufferer to establish clear goals and to be oriented towards positive action , applying theory to practice . |