Example sentences of "is [adv] enable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 2 | When love comes to a man in the form of grace he has the assurance that he is accepted , and is thereby enabled to experience self-integration once more , and the feeling of being reunited with others . |
| 3 | Integration in such circumstances is only enabling if communication is based on a classroom experience which is truly shared between all students and teachers , regardless of the source of that experience . |
| 4 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 5 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 7 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 8 | To continue with the use of terminology from structuration theory , the environment is both enabling and constraining : it presents humans , individually and collectively , with opportunities , and it also faces them with constraints . |
| 9 | Drainage is now enabling some areas to be ploughed , which will advance the process further . |
| 10 | Similarly , continued economic restraint in the public sector is now enabling auditors to , at least in part , contribute to demands for greater public accountability . |
| 11 | In these cases one of the objectives is often to enable lower rates of pay and/or fringe benefits to be paid than if the workers concerned were remunerated on scales applying to the organisation itself . |
| 12 | Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century . |
| 13 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |