Example sentences of "that it allow [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 2 | Such a system does mean that we need to rely on the local press and Shropshire Radio to send out messages , but I think that it allows flexibility . |
| 3 | But the chief advantage of the linguistic analogy in any narrative theory is that it allows literature in general and narrative in particular to be read as a self-contained system independent of any realist function . |
| 4 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The point of the idiom of companionship is that it allows individuals to form and to dissolve ties with one another with greater ease and frequency than would the idiom of shared substance . |
| 7 | the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly . |
| 8 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 9 | One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests . |
| 10 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 11 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 12 | It may be that the mischief to which Lord Wilberforce was alluding toward , namely that it allows buyers to avoid an improvident bargain , would in any case be solved if the Law Commission Proposals on Sale and Supply of Goods No 160 ( 1987 ) had been implemented by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 13 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 14 | Birch argued that the government was avoiding informing the public that it allowed companies to discharge dangerous chemicals and heavy metals directly into rivers . |