Example sentences of "enabled they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity .
2 A number of studies have brought out the bargaining strength of trade unions during the period of near full employment [ Brown , 1981 ] , which enabled them to reinforce long-established work practices which were an incubus on British industry in the form of overmanning .
3 They even took pride in developing new skills which enabled them to use difficult machines which inexperienced people could not use .
4 The final withdrawal without major disaster enabled them to preserve some profit .
5 By bourgeoisification , Taylor is referring to the increasing emphasis within the game on comfort and entertainment manifested in such developments as the reconstruction of grounds as commercial stadia ( with covered stands , seats and floodlights ) , the payment of large transfer fees and the freedom of contract for players which enabled them to command large salaries .
6 Most papers did not mind , however , for the government restrictions kept their paper and printing costs low and enabled them to make good profits from the big demand for advertising space .
7 These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall .
8 This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence .
9 High-performance work design enabled them to achieve those objectives by increasing flexibility , output quality and effective use of assets .
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