Example sentences of "it enables [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily .
2 And , especially perhaps , it enables searches to be undertaken without any of the companies knowing about it .
3 It enables taps to be connected quickly and easily , even in the very confined spaces found in some kitchen and bathroom situations .
4 It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests .
5 It enables MS-DOS files to be copied to Unix and vice versa and enables Unix files to be printed by a printer connected to MS-DOS .
6 The company says that it enables MS-DOS , OS/2 and Apple Computer Inc Macintosh users to share data , print services and applications on Sparc systems while retaining the existing operating environments ; certified by Novell Inc , the product will be sold directly and through manufacturers and resellers .
7 The value of the sociological perspective is that it enables students to see why society believes in the discipline in question .
8 The Burlington , Massachusetts-based company has always pushed the way that it enables teams of programmers work together , with mechanisms to let them share code safely .
9 Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education .
10 My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation .
11 It enables users to see whether the company is self-financing .
12 It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems .
13 Cumulus Technology Inc , Palo Alto , California will announce Personal Touch , a full-featured Window manager for the Cumulus Alpha Terminal : it enables users to move , resize or select windows and other on-screen features by point and click or through hot key commands ; OSF/Motif or MS-DOS-style windows can be selected at set-up and it provides start-up dialogues , macro dialogues and exit dialogues to open and close applications ; open applications can be displayed as full-screen , stacked or tiled windows depending upon user requirement , Cumulus says .
14 It enables users to access product , application and support notes ; contact customer service , development and marketing groups as well as providing on-line user registration .
15 It enables users to rasterise plot files on their Sparcstations for faster output on the plotter , particularly useful for dense files , Xerox says .
16 It enables users to retain the structure of documents — paragraphs , headings , chapters , footnotes and the like — and to tag these components for mapping into the database .
17 It enables users to create and maintain dynamic data models that are defined and manipulated at the highest level , by category .
18 It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems .
19 It enables users to move , resize or select windows and other on-screen features by point and click or through hot key commands .
20 It enables users to attach additional displays to the same workstation and costs £2,703 per adaptor .
21 While the ideology is appropriate , it enables choices to be made on the basis of far less analysis and with much greater urgency , which certainly seems to be a move in the right direction , even if the choice made is not always the best one in the circumstances .
22 It enables prisoners to pay off their debts to society by working hard and banking the money .
23 It enables governors to draw upon the creativity , expertise , experience and commitment of the teaching staff .
24 It enables women who choose not to get married but rather to live in religious community to side-step issues which haunt and dominate present-day society .
25 It enables cheques , standing orders and other means of payment to be cleared rapidly .
26 It enables teachers to make clear statements about what they want their students to do , but it is not always necessary or possible to satisfy all of the conditions given above .
27 it enables firms to introduce products more quickly in response to competition .
28 Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences .
29 It enables capital investment ( acquisition of plant and machinery ) to take place .
30 Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights .
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