Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [adv] to allow " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meals are taken irregularly , sleep-cycles are disturbed and leisure activities are pushed aside to allow time for more interaction with the machine . |
| 2 | Rotational needs — the venue may change when meetings are held regularly to allow delegates equal ease of access |
| 3 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 4 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 5 | They were able to do this partly because some of the messages were generalized enough to allow virtually any interpretation , and partly because messages sometimes combined minute practical detail with broad general principle , allowing teachers to feel they were taking a step in the right direction by changing the surface appearance of their practice without altering its substance . |