Example sentences of "[adj] to allow " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Auditor General 's criticism of the excessive overlap between shifts , which in some hospitals was found to be too generous to allow only for handover and meal breaks , could be largely countered by establishing the correct balance of staff employed full-time with others employed on a part-time basis . |
| 2 | Damascus urged the Lebanese to allow the PLO to continue operations from southern Lebanon while ordering the Syrian security services to ensure that no such activity could be undertaken by Palestinians from Syrian territory . |
| 3 | Conversely , a purchased option where the investor is free to allow the option to lapse if it is not in his interest to exercise it will not be a contingent liability transaction . |
| 4 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 5 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 6 | Some funeral directors are prepared to allow payment in advance . |
| 7 | But the Government is not prepared to allow this to happen . |
| 8 | Seventy-one per cent were prepared to allow ‘ aggravating ’ for ‘ irritating ’ compared with 43 per cent in 1969 . |
| 9 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 10 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 11 | He was content just to be a part of the pack , and Ollie was prepared to allow this , providing he did n't get too close to the family . |
| 12 | Association chairman , Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate that Orient were prepared to allow a man of Frank 's talent to take on the job . ’ |
| 13 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 14 | This is far from clear , for the Army at least was prepared to allow the Church of England to remain in being , with bishops deprived of coercive powers . |
| 15 | At one extreme is the Ministry of Defence , determined to hang on to its exclusive tenure of Range West and , with the exception of half a dozen conducted walks it 's prepared to allow from Stack Rocks to Freshwater West every summer , to keep out the public . |
| 16 | Politically , Britain was not prepared to allow WEU to intrude upon Anglo-American relationships , and placed it a poor second to NATO . |
| 17 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 18 | But the inheritance customs of western France held out far greater prospects to the brothers of the dead man than Richard was prepared to allow . |
| 19 | Such is my concern for the liberty of the subject that I am prepared to allow a contemnor who ought to be punished for contempt to go unpunished ; and that is so , notwithstanding that Parliament envisages that I could consider imposing a just punishment . ’ |
| 20 | In an interview with the press he seemed prepared to allow the employers time to see the logic of the situation but added a threat of sanctions to come . |
| 21 | It was as if , having seen the contents of Mr Broadhurst 's fitted cupboard , he were now prepared to allow me some knowledge of the rituals connected with this apparatus . |
| 22 | But many companies are not prepared to allow the necessary time , despite the fact that without the language in some countries it is impossible to operate . |
| 23 | He concentrated entirely on opera seria , attempting to engage the acknowledged leader among Italian opera composers , Niccòlo Piccinni ; he was even prepared to allow Piccinni a rare concession , his own choice of libretto . |
| 24 | Despite this , the Government is prepared to allow equally sensitive areas close to the beaches and islands of Wales to drilled in the future . |
| 25 | The Ingard group is in serious financial trouble , and a fortnight ago presented a cheque for £300,000 which it had neither finds nor a sufficient overdraft to meet — it had already exceeded the limit of the facilities which the bank was prepared to allow . |
| 26 | If you would like to know more about it — and you have checked that your employer would be prepared to allow SCOTVEC to second you for a maximum of 15 days per year — contact Andrew Burt on . |
| 27 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 28 | Ministers are not prepared to allow local authorities to lay down conditions of employment , sick pay , holiday pay and other pay levels . |
| 29 | There is a record level of chronic law breaking throughout the country and they are prepared to allow companies to break the law for profit . |
| 30 | It is for Vendor to take the risk of ‘ intervening events ’ — unless the Vendor is prepared to allow the Purchaser to assume control of the Business at exchange . |