Example sentences of "allow us [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 2 | Space allows us only to look at some of the most significant of these developments here . |
| 3 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 4 | The law books allow us only to use ‘ such force as is reasonably necessary ’ to get out of trouble , but the legal definition of ‘ reasonable force ’ appears to be quite wide . |
| 5 | There was no predetermined police model to follow in dealing with our ‘ counter-cultural ’ clients , no previous police experience to allow us easily to slot hippie behaviour into any comfortable niche . |
| 6 | Furthermore , enough insight has been achieved in mapping their respective domains to allow us henceforth to set the problem of demarcation to one side . |
| 7 | The conceptual framework developed in Chapter 1 shows how such an understanding would allow us systematically to understand civil society as perceived and appreciated by persons engaged in it . |
| 8 | There 's something that just wo n't allow us ever to give up . ’ |