Example sentences of "which allowed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they took her away instead and she was in gaol for a day and a night ; they released her because the State of Emergency ( 1960 ) which allowed the government to detain political prisoners without charge , had not yet been legally declared . |
| 2 | In 1949 , Professor Ramsey introduced a crucial refinement to previous work on atomic beams which allowed the frequency of atomic vibrations to be measured with unprecedented accuracy . |
| 3 | After the initial shock and disbelief , the Tysons grew angry — at the advisers who convinced them about Barlow Clowes , at the Midland bank manager who gave verbal assurances of its security , at the regulatory authorities responsible for the investment community and at the Department of Trade and Industry which allowed the company to trade . |
| 4 | Accountants are also investigating book-keeping practices which allowed the deficit to remain undiscovered . |
| 5 | The Fenland ( covering Cambridgeshire , Isle of Ely , Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough ) was without a tutor-organiser from the time Frank Cossey resigned in July 1956 until the appointment of Robert Darby in July 1959 : here it was the decision not to reappoint in Essex following Collingwood 's departure at the end of 1957 which allowed the District to negotiate with the Ministry for a new tutor-organiser to be assigned to the Fenland instead . |
| 6 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 7 | In the original exposition of the theory , Gibson ( 1940 ) assumed that explicit training , which allowed the formation of associations between stimuli and different distinctive consequences , might be necessary for differentiation to occur . |
| 8 | In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity . |
| 9 | This unit provided the necessary information which allowed the most effective system of dosage with mepacrine and Paludrine to be established . |
| 10 | In the Middle Ages a degree of drainage which allowed the conversion of pasture to meadow provided livestock farmers with that most precious of commodities , winter fodder . |
| 11 | For each of these sites Jim recorded data on a number of variables indicative of soil erosion and site attractiveness which allowed the compilation of three index sites relating to high , medium and low levels of use . |
| 12 | The wall to the right of the door was covered with tools of the trade — chisels and punches of every size , mostly with handles of twisted willow which allowed the smith to hold them whilst they were struck with a seven pound sledgehammer and feel no vibration . |
| 13 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |
| 14 | As a consequence , Sayers introduced the concept of metal straps between alternate segments which allowed the achievement of still greater power at efficiencies of some 50 per cent . |
| 15 | This class distinction was taken even further early in the 19th century when a new rule allowed entrants to compete by proxy — skilled archers could shoot on their behalf — which allowed the gentry to be involved , and even to win , without the need to be competent with the bow and arrow . |
| 16 | Furthermore , a shareholders ' agreement required a majority of 75% for many important matters which allowed the 20% shareholder ( with its 26% of voting rights ) a veto over most major decisions . |
| 17 | Because the market has lapsed , the Court of Pie-Powder , which allowed the market to right any wronged there , has also lapsed . |
| 18 | Only 35% of AA 's revenue came from auditing and accounting last year , which allowed the firm to increase its earnings by a reasonable 8% . |
| 19 | While the large firms were busy in the 1980s compromising the quality of audit in the search for fatter fees from more lucrative work , ‘ the professional bodies to which these accountants belong — possibly under a certain amount of external pressure — produced accounting ‘ standards ’ which allowed the management of businesses to portray results which were remote from the truth' . |
| 20 | It was Phillips 's 13th minute shot which allowed the Canaries to close in on the leaders , although there was more than a slice of luck about it as the ball hit Nick Henry before bouncing over the stranded Oldham keeper Paul Gerrard . |
| 21 | I arrived after the kick-off , and gave away a crucial penalty with a hand ball which allowed the other team to draw 1-1 . |
| 22 | This passage has a number of murder holes in the floor , which allowed the Castle defenders to drop various unpleasant substances on any attackers below . |
| 23 | This practice did not strictly contravene the legislation since there is a loophole which allowed the introduction of this line of questioning at the discretion of the judge , if the judge thought it was essential . |
| 24 | This formulation enabled Althusser to theorize a decentred totality which allowed the possibility of differences without reducing each instance to the operation of an essence or a single principle , such as the dialectic . |
| 25 | If keyboarding of the two texts could not be run in parallel , some other arrangement would have to be adopted which allowed the overlapping of phases . |
| 26 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 27 | The other factor was the importance of the formations which allowed the archers to act in liaison with the cavalry , of whom some 2,500 served that year . |
| 28 | The pre-tests served to iron out anomalies , facilitated the development of a coding frame ( which allowed the raw data to be analysed using the Minitab Statistical package on the Brighton Polytechnic Vax computer ) , and prepared the ground for the pilot study which took place in a neighbouring health authority . |
| 29 | The only major royal intervention in the land market on the family 's behalf was the parliamentary act which allowed the Holland estates to be used as a patrimony for younger generations of the family . |
| 30 | I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem . |