Example sentences of "[vb mod] be allow [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It should be stated publicly that where two independent doctors agree there is no hope of recovery , patients should be allowed to die with dignity , ’ she said .
2 A REPORT urging that premature babies should be allowed to die by neglect has been attacked by the society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) .
3 A REPORT urging that premature babies should be allowed to die by neglect has been attacked by the society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) .
4 Two years on , Cleveland should be allowed to move from anger and denial to acceptance and compassion — for the sake of children and the people abusing them , both of whom need effective help .
5 Before the massacre , he had allowed Hong Kong 's sympathies for the Peking protests to flow freely , judging that demonstrations could and should be allowed to proceed without police interference .
6 Its position was that considerations of comity should be fully addressed before discovery should be allowed to proceed by means not fully recognised by the foreign sovereign State concerned .
7 Stephen Navin was urging that the case should be allowed to go to court : Virgin , he argued , were on solid ground .
8 On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students .
9 On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students .
10 When making the care order , the justices , concerned about the divergent views regarding the proposed rehabilitation plan but having decided not to make an order that there be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Children Act 1989 made a direction that the guardian ad litem 's involvement should be allowed to continue in order to investigate the progress of the rehabilitation so that , if appropriate , the child could seek an order for contact to be terminated .
11 He added : ‘ It is ludicrous that a man who was the centre of a police investigation should be allowed to sit in judgment against honest men who were following their conscience . ’
12 The Hundred Group recommends that nationalised industries should be allowed to borrow without Government guarantee and that the borrowings should be excluded from the PSBR .
13 If the current position of any one product is plotted correctly on its life-cycle , then it is possible to assess the potential growth of sales , or the degree to which prices should be allowed to soften in order to maintain the market share , or whether the product should be superseded by another .
14 Houseplants should be allowed to drift into semi-dormancy .
15 Mitsotakis rejected an Albanian request that the Cams should be allowed to return to Greece and reclaim property there , telling an Albanian journalist that although compensation for property might be subject to negotiation , the Cams had left as war criminals and international law on this subject should be observed .
16 I AM sick of Mary Whitehouse and other so-called do-gooders telling me what I should be allowed to watch on television .
17 As to my hon. Friend 's comment that the security forces should be allowed to operate without constraint from political considerations , I can give a categorical assurance that no such restraint for political reasons will be imposed .
18 This memorandum , issued by the physician superintendent of Neasden Hospital , London , to all his medical officers over 25 years ago , attracted widespread opprobrium from the UK national press and the chronologically correct if sexist response from the British Medical Journal that ‘ every patient whatever his age or his disease should be resuscitated unless the doctor looking after him has no doubt at all that he should be allowed to rest in peace ’ .
19 When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers .
20 Venables insists Taylor should be allowed to stay in charge of England 's World Cup campaign for the three remaining make-or-break qualifiers .
21 The appointment was made amid controversy over Vistbacka 's comment that Finland accepted too many refugees and that only women should be allowed to come to Finland as refugees " to be wives for unmarried Finnish farmers " .
22 * Tea should be allowed to brew for 4–5min — frenzied stirring of leaves and bashing of bags forces the flavour and emphasises the tannin .
23 In the professional context , reservations have been felt in the past about the extent to which surveyors should be allowed to practise in organisations where large stakes of capital are held by outsiders for investment purposes only .
24 The player was adamant that if he was to play for Huddersfield he must be allowed to live in Newcastle .
25 Lennox Lewis , as a man who did so much a fortnight ago to give boxing back its dignity , must be allowed to move from ringside tonight to ring next spring if heavyweight boxing is going to complete the process of rehabilitation .
26 Patients must be allowed to come to terms , they must grieve and mourn for their lost limbs , lost abilities or lost looks and be helped to adjust to their lost body-image .
27 Perhaps I may be allowed to paraphrase for brevity from Scientists against Time by J. P. Baxter in his official account of the American Office of Scientific Research and Development :
28 The Olympic weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from Barcelona after a positive drugs test may be allowed to compete after all.The British Olympic Association says it is a possibility .
29 In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 .
30 Making clear the role of the armed forces in keeping cicil order when necessary , however , the statement said that the armed forces would " under no circumstances allow intranational armed clashes " to develop in Yugoslavia , and that no inter-republican dispute would be allowed to escalate into violence .
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