Example sentences of "enable him [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The sellers got the rice completely ready for collection and were requested by the buyer for a delivery order enabling him to collect the rice .
2 In the morning the Oxford Coroner would open and adjourn the inquest , enabling him to release the body to the next of kin , in this case Ambassador Fairweather in person , representing President John Cormack .
3 On these assumptions , the expatriate vote clinched the Vale of Glamorgan for Mr Walter Sweeney , enabling him to recapture the seat lost in 1989 to Labour , and may have tipped the balance in Mr Michael Stern 's defence of Bristol North-West .
4 Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round .
5 A patent is a very desirable form of intellectual property because it gives the owner a monopoly in an invention , enabling him to exploit the invention for a number of years to the exclusion of other people ( subject to provisions designed to prevent abuse of the monopoly granted ) .
6 Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain .
7 Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came .
8 These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements .
9 Amendments made : No. 62 , in page , 47 line , 43 , at end insert — ( ) The terms and conditions on which the Secretary of State may make any grants under this paragraph may include in particular conditions — ( a ) enabling him to require the repayment , in whole or in part , of sums paid by him if any other condition subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with ; and ( b ) requiring the payment of interest in respect of any period during which a sum due to him in accordance with any other condition remains unpaid , but shall not relate to the application by the college council to which the grant is made of any sums derived otherwise than from the Secretary of State . ' .
10 Angel One 's T'ai Chi mind disciplines had enabled him to subjugate the pain and stiffness of his physical injuries , sufficiently for his body to operate at near maximum efficiency .
11 Author Mik Chinery runs a powerboat school and has been involved in the incorporation of electronic navigation in RYA courses , a background which has enabled him to explain the principles and application of this still relatively new field .
12 At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years .
13 But surely only his perfect oblivious innocence of all evil including pain had enabled him to survive the journey down .
14 Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted .
15 I beg to move , to leave out from ’ That ’ to the end of the Question , and to add instead thereof : this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill because of the inadequacy of the groundwater protection provisions in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule , because the public consultation on the Hydrotechnica report is not yet concluded , because that consultation process has allowed no mechanism for public discussion of the report , and because the Bill makes no provision for an independent final arbiter on matters concerning the quality of the water environment in the inland bay .
16 The groundwater protection provisions are inadequate in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule .
17 In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister .
18 This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf .
19 His own experience would enable him to demonstrate the use of the breathing apparatus , and he volunteered to go down .
20 Following TODAY 's campaign , it was understood yesterday that the Attorney General had called for papers which would enable him to consider the case .
21 He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification .
22 The latter trip may enable him to discover the ‘ external objects ’ , the analyst thinks : ‘ now , through analysis , you 're seeking the internal objects . ’
23 I hope that I can enable him to understand the laws of the game with which we are now involved .
24 He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting .
25 There was no way to teach a man to read the Bible — a predominant intention in much early education in literacy — which did not also enable him to read the radical press .
26 A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements .
27 Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent .
28 The seller will normally send by air to the buyer some documents : one will be the bill of lading transferred to the buyer to enable him to collect the goods at their port of destination ; another will be a bill of exchange which the buyer will normally sign and return thereby undertaking to pay for the goods on the date specified on the bill of exchange .
29 He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) .
30 Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state .
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