Example sentences of "[conj] enable them [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 2 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 3 | Lenders ' information needs are concerned with the ability of the government to meet its contractual obligations , as well as information that enables them to compare the return they receive with alternative investments . |
| 4 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 5 | ( ii ) To encourage subject departments to inspire pupils with an interest in their subject to use the Library/Resource Centre to further their knowledge of the subject and to enable them to use the skills of the subject , in particular by finding its concepts meaningful for the whole of life . |
| 6 | The newer , smaller , spontaneous groups — of parents with mentally handicapped children , for example must be voluntary and self-help to retain their independence and to enable them to build the self-respect of their members . |
| 7 | The purpose of the narthex was to accommodate those , such as penitents , who were not permitted to enter the church , and to enable them to hear the service . |
| 8 | EDF has done everything it can to make all of the French understand how much is at stake and enable them to compare the advantages and drawbacks of the various possible sources of energy . |