Example sentences of "enabled [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 2 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 3 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Theda murmured , unable to help admiring Rose 's social address , which enabled her to gloss over the incident so easily . |
| 8 | The award from HIDB enabled her to go to a FIS training camp for lowland skiers at Kiruna in northern Sweden in December . |
| 9 | Her firm stance enabled her to speak to the Russian government with greater authority also . |
| 10 | Attending aquafit sessions at Waterworld gave her motivation that enabled her to stick to a diet , lose weight and get her walking again … a great achievement . |
| 11 | The appointment enabled him to engage in a process of comparing and contrasting between his main job and the health one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Likewise , it was his image of a party united by a scientifically based theory which enabled him to insist upon a steeply hierarchical structure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the mid-1950s his growing reputation enabled him to concentrate on a literary career . |
| 22 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |