Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Once the Invasion was well under way , we were allowed to go on leave again .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 They were allowed to appear on TV and the barriers to professional publicity had been removed .
6 I AM sick of Mary Whitehouse and other so-called do-gooders telling me what I should be allowed to watch on television .
7 You were n't allowed to smoke on school premises but he 'd always light up while we were rehearsing .
8 The meaning of a sentence should not be allowed to depend on punctuation .
9 Surely the whole hope and yearnings of humanity is that its religion shall be a bastion against such things being allowed to happen on earth , not that it shall be the very instrument used to bring them about .
10 ‘ I would dearly like to see a Tote monopoly off course with bookmakers allowed to operate on course only .
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