Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] allow [pers pn] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , his political opponents suffered too : Lord Lytton 's speech was so bad that many people had great difficulty in understanding him , and because his deafness did not allow him to take part in debates , everyone was often forced to wait until the next day for any reply from Lord Lytton because he would insist on reading what had been said in Hansard , the Parliamentary publication , before making his own speech . |
| 2 | He replaced Gen. Jorge Moreira Rojas [ see p. 37851 ] , who had stated that " professional ethics " did not allow him to take orders from the new Defence Minister , Klinsky , who as a rear-admiral was subordinate to him . |
| 3 | Southwark Crown Court 's senior judge , Gerald Butler , QC , said recently enacted legislation did not allow him to take the man 's 30-year-old record into account . |
| 4 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 5 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |