Example sentences of "enabled [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the height and fast bipedalism of the carnosaurs enabled them to tower over the extremely well-protected horned ceratopsians , and simply seize them from above with a powerfully armed mouth . |
| 2 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 3 | Her twice-weekly parliamentary Question Times , where she would be thrown a few soft-balls by her own side , enabled her to shine at the dispatch box . |
| 4 | Theda murmured , unable to help admiring Rose 's social address , which enabled her to gloss over the incident so easily . |
| 5 | Her firm stance enabled her to speak to the Russian government with greater authority also . |
| 6 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 7 | It would appear from paragraph ( a ) that a seller who has a monopoly over the supply of the kind of goods in question is unlikely to convince the court of the reasonableness of a wide exemption clause , especially if it was a large demand for the product which enabled him to insist on the clause being in the contract . |
| 8 | Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north . |
| 9 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 10 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 11 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 12 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 13 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 14 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |
| 15 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |