Example sentences of "as allow the " in BNC.

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1 In practice , it has been taken as allowing the jury to assess whether the mental abnormality was such a significant factor in the killing as to reduce D's culpability to the extent that the offence should be reduced from murder to manslaughter .
2 This distinction can be seen as allowing the salesmen to defend themselves through providing a justification for fiddling .
3 A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse .
4 The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world .
5 By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses .
6 As well as allowing the ‘ hard-core ’ countries to reduce their rates recently ( with the obvious exception of France ) , the process of easing German monetary policy should allow a reduction in some of the currency anomalies that have arisen over the past six months .
7 Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders .
8 This resulted in a change to the user interface so as to allow the test engineer a choice of system entry level and support .
9 In that case Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish broadcasting monopoly , ‘ RTE ’ ) refused to license the copyright in its weekly programme listings so as to allow the publication in Ireland of a comprehensive weekly television guide .
10 The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living .
11 However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it .
12 This rule needs to be changed , so as to allow the unemployed to draw benefit as long as unemployment lasts , providing that claimants have not refused jobs they were offered without good cause , and are prepared to go on training schemes .
13 Protective clothing : the only protective item allowed is a Police ‘ Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ’ which should be worn in a prominent position so as to allow the Local Youth to identify old policemen who they do not like , from young policemen whom they like even less .
14 In all three cases the Court has stressed the gravity of revenge attacks and the danger of dissatisfied victims or their relatives taking the law into their own hands , and then found reasons to mitigate the sentence so as to allow the immediate release of the offender .
15 For many years it was thought that in the absence of express provision in the original constitution the continued equality of all shares was a fundamental condition which could not be abrogated by an alteration of the articles so as to allow the issue of shares preferential to those already issued .
16 Figure 7.1 Conceptual structure of a geographical information system : maps of various features are converted to a common scale and projection so as to allow the identification of regions that satisfy particular requirements .
17 In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week .
18 The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance .
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