Example sentences of "allowed for the " in BNC.

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1 Evelyn reckoned him to be about twenty-six if you allowed for the drink .
2 There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ?
3 The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped .
4 Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel .
5 Turner , however , also allowed for the possibility that rituals do in themselves provoke strong emotions ; emotions which then have to be directed .
6 The new postwar constitutions of France and Italy ( and later that of the new Federal Republic of Germany ) included clauses which allowed for the possibility of the abrogation of national sovereignty in favour of supranational authorities .
7 But for Britain , WEU was perhaps satisfactory : it allowed for the possibility of British association with the leaders of integration , if necessary , and may have permitted some form of British influence upon the latter .
8 A system of operational efficiency comparison was also evolved by the mid-1950s , which allowed for the development of rivalry and emulation between power stations and contributed to the development of cost-consciousness .
9 Through the centuries Japan 's proximity to Asia allowed for the absorption of Asian cultural influences , yet the distance proved sufficiently great to assist the emergence and maintenance of indigenous cultural traits and enable Japan to avoid a succession of invasions or new influxes of other peoples .
10 We used a logistic regression method for analysing our two stage study that allowed for the control sample being stratified and corrected the estimates for differing sampling rates in different strata ( the different hospitals ) .
11 Since the notion of literariness was not coterminous with the art object , it allowed for the inclusion of non-literary elements in a work without ditching the specificity of literariness .
12 A decree signed in October allowed for the gradual deregulation of the oil industry , whereby the exploration and exploitation of oil reserves , hitherto the sole province of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales ( YPF ) , would be open to foreign companies and all YPF oil wells would be privatized within six months .
13 On Nov. 1 Taiwan 's Executive Yuan or Cabinet approved a draft statute on relations with the Chinese mainland , which allowed for the legalization of civilian contacts between the two sides .
14 The ruling Military Committee of National Salvation ( CMSN ) on July 25 adopted a law which allowed for the setting up of political parties , with the exception of specifically Islamic parties or parties based on race or region .
15 Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] .
16 Since early July the Medellín judges had received more than 200 requests for releases , as lawyers sought to take advantage of a new Penal Code which allowed for the release of anyone who had been detained without trial for 180 days .
17 It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education .
18 If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money .
19 Until 1990 , an agreement between the Ministry of Health and the medical defence societies ( who provide indemnity insurance for doctors ) allowed for the costs of any action to be shared between the two parties .
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