Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to allow [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 2 | In some samples of stereoregular or symmetrical polymers , the degree of three-dimensional ordering of the chains may be sufficiently high to allow a structural analysis of the polymer to be accomplished . |
| 3 | This sample size is just sufficient to allow a limited number of measurements to be done . |
| 4 | It recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat to Darlington , saying it was too early to allow the economic barriers erected against the country 's apartheid policies to be brought down . |
| 5 | The bonds were too tight to allow the muscular body any movement , but the bird crossly jerked its head and opened its pointed beak to hiss at Joseph 's fingers . |
| 6 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |
| 7 | We must conclude that , despite its initial attractions , the proposal that pragmatics be based on a notion of appropriateness should be discarded : language usage is too elastic to allow a pragmatic theory to be based on such a concept . |
| 8 | ‘ That snipping is absolutely essential to allow the final virus to assemble . ’ |