Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | Highways are being split down the middle , with special ‘ car pool lanes ’ for vehicles carrying more than two passengers , allowing them to cruise past the traffic jams . |
| 3 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 4 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 5 | They all have structural similarities to the nucleotide building blocks of DNA ( or RNA ) , allowing them to interfere with the replication of viral genetic material . |
| 6 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 7 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 8 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 9 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 10 | These included giving families reproductive choice in future pregnancies , enabling them to plan for the future with a disabled child , avoiding the experience of a delayed diagnosis , and identifying a presymptomatic cohort who might benefit from future treatments . |
| 11 | If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs . |
| 12 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 13 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 14 | Each Mechonoid was moulded in fibre-glass on a circular base and , like the Dalek , fitted with castors enabling it to roll along the floor . |
| 15 | Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed . |
| 16 | We praise you , O God , that the light of Christ shines amidst the darkness of our world and that the darkness has not overcome it ; and we pray that his light may shine more and more into our own lives , illuminating our minds with the knowledge of the truth and enabling us to walk in the way of holiness and love ; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord , |
| 17 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 18 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 19 | ELEMENTAL spirits found on the Isle of Man , they have a malicious habit of magnetising stones which mark the road 's edges ; these then exert a strong pull on passing motor cars , causing them to swerve off the road despite the driver 's efforts . |
| 20 | IT IS unfair to accuse Wet Wet Wet 's Marti Pellow ( right ) of putting fans at risk by urging them to dance during the band 's Edinburgh concert . |
| 21 | Now , finally , Taylor is urging someone to climb above the heap . |
| 22 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 23 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 24 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 25 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 26 | A range of copper alloys has been found there and evidence suggests that lead was extracted from the copper by causing it to fuse with the silica and alumina in the clay crucible to form a lead-glass . |
| 27 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm training it to grow along the kitchen wall , and the flowers already hang over the kitchen 's picture window . |
| 29 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA on Feb. 13 rejected Libya 's response to the unanimous UN Security Council Resolution 731 of Jan. 21 urging it to co-operate in the investigation of the December 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger [ see p. 38743 ] . |
| 30 | She frowned , not wanting anything to intrude on the peacefulness . |