Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * Tea should be allowed to brew for 4–5min — frenzied stirring of leaves and bashing of bags forces the flavour and emphasises the tannin . |
| 2 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 3 | Mexico would not privatize PEMEX , the state oil company , while US and Canadian oil companies would not be allowed to explore for oil in Mexico , nor operate refineries or open petrol stations there . |
| 4 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 5 | The runners ' tasks proved humdrum alright , and to start with , the poor bastards were never allowed to pause for breath . |
| 6 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 7 | In 1777 Wolf himself , then a prospective student at Göttingen , had to fight to be allowed to enrol for philology : there was no such " subject " then . |
| 8 | Perhaps I may be allowed to paraphrase for brevity from Scientists against Time by J. P. Baxter in his official account of the American Office of Scientific Research and Development : |