Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net wickets at Queen 's Park were considered too dangerous and , indeed , the five specialist seamers were allowed to bowl only at unguarded stumps . |
| 2 | Swiss midfielder Alain Sutter was allowed to run hard at the Scottish rearguard , forcing Gough to concede a corner . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrat National Heritage spokesman Robert Maclennan said : ‘ Some charities could actually find themselves out of pocket if the lottery is allowed to eat away at their income from raffles , lotteries and donations . ’ |
| 4 | When Apricot was three weeks away from the examinations which were , in theory , to get herself , Belinda and Brenda out of school , away from home and into a preferable social and intellectual environment-Liese was happy enough to fail hers , and be allowed to stay cosily at home and be married off to someone suitable — there was an unusual uproar in Mafeking Street . |
| 5 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 6 | The court is not allowed to peer inside at the meanings assigned to those elements , except to find a non-jurisdictional error . |