Example sentences of "to allow [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The idea behind the launch this autumn of the new Certificate in Management is to allow employers to reduce difficult to assess abilities to a tangible level .
2 Oxford looked dead and buried until Pompey substitute Stuart Doling brought down John Durnin to allow Jim Magilton to cut the deficit to 5–4 from the penalty spot .
3 TOUGH measures to allow courts to jail persistent juvenile offenders were promised yesterday in the start of a Government crusade against lawlessness .
4 Pressure grows to allow Marcos a burial at home
5 Or she may simply be trying to snub President Cory Aquino , who refuses to allow Marcos back , even through he is dead ; and has barred Imelda too .
6 Proposals to allow cases on a ‘ no-win , no-fee ’ basis are unlikely to increase access to justice .
7 By the same token , the business arrangements in many organisations are now regionally orientated , and it seems only logical to allow groups of offices that can collectively meet the Institute 's requirements to provide pre- and post-qualification training as single entities — or training office groups .
8 The manufacturers of the aircraft , Boeing , said that they would review the report 's recommendations but stressed that the best precaution was " not to allow bombs on aircraft " .
9 Organising a Relief Service to Allow Course Attendance
10 The Investment Committee of the National Association of Pension Funds recommends that shares held in the parent company should be based on the proportion of the share in the All Share Index , ( in order to allow Index ‘ tracking ’ ) or 2 per cent , whichever is lower .
11 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 .
12 To force the North Koreans to allow inspection , Washington and Seoul have even hinted at military action against the hardline Communist country .
13 It has refused to allow inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency of two suspected nuclear sites , and has announced that it will pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in June .
14 The back of the bottle is left uncovered to allow inspection of the inserted tube .
15 The IAEA , holding an emergency meeting in Vienna , passed on July 18 a motion censuring Iraq for failing to allow inspection of its nuclear programme ( the UN 's Special Commission on Iraq having reportedly described as " premature " a claim by Perricos that Iraq had " come clean " on its nuclear programme ) .
16 Should any question arise , however , the Registrar has a discretion ( under Land Registration Rules 1925 , r290(1) ) to allow inspection of the filed transfer and it is understood that such discretion would be exercised if any difficulty could be resolved by production of the filed transfer .
17 The registrar does have a discretion to allow inspection of a filed transfer ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r290(1) ) ; but it is obviously better either to have a duplicate of the transfer or a separate declaration of trust so that exercise of the discretion does not have to be requested .
18 The International Atomic Energy Agency welcomed Mr de Klerk 's offer to allow inspection of its nuclear facilities and said it would send inspectors to verify the end of the nuclear weapon programme .
19 One related consequence of mutual support expectations among affiliated companies is to allow operations to be managed within longer term horizons .
20 Suppleness is concerned with the muscles , ligaments and tendons and their capacity to allow freedom of movement .
21 The Official Secrets Act was to be amended to allow freedom of information , and changes were to be made to the postal service to protect privacy .
22 Pogodin addressed himself to the spectre of peasant unrest in April and May 1855 and called upon the government to allow freedom of expression .
23 Officials see the main thrust as : more freedom in basic research to allow decision making by scientists rather than government more encouragement for private enterprise to invest in research a push to persuade state research bodies to do more contract work for industry and rely less on government funds .
24 I blame both local councillors in Scotland and Scottish Members of Parliament , from both sides of the House , who were stupid enough to allow revaluation in Scotland to continue after the English stopped it in 1973 .
25 Lord Lane accepted that the refusal to allow Alladice a lawyer was quite improper and a clear breach of section 58 .
26 Each video started sufficiently before the junction to allow signs for the junction to be seen and lasted until the car was approximately 100 yards past the junction .
27 Video recording in each case began sufficiently before the junction to allow signs for the junction to be seen and lasted until the car was approximately 100 yards past the junction .
28 Some funeral directors are prepared to allow payment in advance .
29 If you book through a Travel Agent , you should ensure that you pay the agent in sufficient time to allow payment to reach Cosmos by the due date .
30 Announcing the decision in Islamabad , the head of the local USAID office , James Norris , said that the agency would honour its commitment to allocate the remaining US$464,000,000 of a US$4,000 million aid package agreed in 1987 , to allow projects to continue until 1994 .
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