Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hundred Group recommends that nationalised industries should be allowed to borrow without Government guarantee and that the borrowings should be excluded from the PSBR . |
| 2 | Section 16(2) provides : [ t ] he cases in which a pecuniary advantage … is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — ( b ) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft , or to take out any policy of insurance or annuity contract , or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he is allowed to do so ; or |
| 3 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 4 | Dozens of early Georgian houses built in the 1720s in Queen Anne style ( surprisingly rare in central London ) had been allowed to fall into decay — to be turned into sweatshops for the clothing industry , to be converted into offices for the fruit-market or simply to become slums . |
| 5 | Parts are still at this time being occupied but it is almost certain before long that the whole of the building will be condemned and we hope that this old building will be preserved and not allowed to fall into decay . |
| 6 | From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay . |
| 7 | When making the care order , the justices , concerned about the divergent views regarding the proposed rehabilitation plan but having decided not to make an order that there be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Children Act 1989 made a direction that the guardian ad litem 's involvement should be allowed to continue in order to investigate the progress of the rehabilitation so that , if appropriate , the child could seek an order for contact to be terminated . |
| 8 | Philip Hardwick , the Goldsmiths ' surveyor , was appointed architect on 18th February ; on 18th March Hoyle 's death was reported to London , and duly regretted ; on 27th March the transfer of property was ordered to be carried out forthwith , and the Rev. William Newstead , then Usher and in charge of the School since Hoyle 's death , was allowed to continue in office . |
| 9 | In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 . |
| 10 | Says Cedella , whose father 's record Iron Lion Zion , is at No. 5 a decade after his death : ‘ Only the boys were allowed to go on tour with Dad because he thought it was too rough for us girls . |
| 11 | Once the Invasion was well under way , we were allowed to go on leave again . |
| 12 | He said that he had been allowed to go on stage as an attendant to a goddess in Howes 's Pastoral , a ballet to Beethoven 's Sixth Symphony . |
| 13 | DUTCH eggs known to be infected with salmonella were allowed to go on sale in Britain without a public health warning being issued , it was confirmed yesterday . |
| 14 | He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law . |
| 15 | Stephen Navin was urging that the case should be allowed to go to court : Virgin , he argued , were on solid ground . |
| 16 | No one is allowed to go to sleep during this talk |
| 17 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 18 | The only place I was allowed to go to school I think . |
| 19 | Huang Sheng faced life as an outcast in his Chinese home where children who ca n't walk are not allowed to go to school . |
| 20 | On the third Sunday I was allowed to go to Church , the Parish Church of Fulmer . |
| 21 | I find it indefensible that a bed manager — especially for neurosurgery , a specialty in which admissions are often urgent — is allowed to go to lunch without a bleep and that no one covers for him . |
| 22 | For example after their early years in Britain , Sikh women were allowed to go to work but even after all these years of earning a wage they rarely make , or are consulted about , decisions made about money . |
| 23 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 24 | Olga , the brighter of the two , had clamoured to be allowed to go to college in Tollemarche , and both parents had encouraged her in this , hoping she would become a school-teacher ; but she had met Boyd Stych and got married instead . |
| 25 | However , the Canadian multicentre post-term pregnancy trial group found that women allowed to go into labour spontaneously had a higher rate of caesarean section ( 24.5% ) than those who had labour induced ( 21.2% ) because of an increased incidence of fetal distress in the first stage . |
| 26 | Johanna was allowed to go into town because there was little else for her and other youngsters to do , said her father , Robert , 40 . |
| 27 | The Club will make the necessary arrangements , but no-one is allowed to go into town before clearing immigration nor should the skipper or any of the crew visit immigration as they will be told , in no uncertain terms , to return to the club immediately . |
| 28 | Worse , people are allowed to go into business with a business plan I would not even read , ’ she said . |
| 29 | A crew acceptable to the MoD to ferry XH558 anywhere would seem unlikely , particularly if the current crew are allowed to lapse from currency . |
| 30 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |