Example sentences of "which enable [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 2 | As an alternative , fuller and more flexible manual exposure control is provided on some machines in the form of a thumbwheel or pair of ± toggle switches which enable you to control the amount of increase or decrease in the exposure and so obtain the best possible picture . |
| 3 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
| 4 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 5 | Yet for the discourse analyst it may be exactly these transient and variable features which enable us to understand the meaning of what is said , and the reason why the order of sentences proceeds in the way that it does . |
| 6 | In the previous chapter a number of important decisions were taken which enable us to establish the location of lexical elements within sentences , that is to say , to delimit them syntagmatically . |
| 7 | At the most distant property there are shearers ’ quarters which enable us to have the use of hot showers , and shelter for the barbecue if it happens to be raining . |
| 8 | Only some European countries possess remains of buildings , decoration , sculpture , pottery , burial and so on which enable us to trace the evolution of architecture during these centuries . |
| 9 | Joyce 's services to the cause were recognised by a paid appointment as West London Area Administrative Officer of the BUF , which enabled him to leave the Victoria Tutorial College and abandon his PhD thesis at King 's . |
| 10 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 11 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 12 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 13 | Lapworth was passionate in his search for truth and exactness in the solution of geological problems , and diplomatic in his presentation , gifts which enabled him to propose the accepted solution to a famous controversy . |
| 14 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 15 | The defendant , who was the freehold owner of a house , subject to a local authority mortgage , emigrated to the United States in 1976 , leaving the house in the occupation of his mother , his sister , C. and her husband , D. In April 1979 the defendant signed a power of attorney in favour of his mother in terms which enabled her to sell the property . |
| 16 | Laura certainly brought a missionary zeal to her work ; it was yet another stepping stone which enabled her to cross the gulf from working at home to working outside without associated guilt . |
| 17 | In May 1862 the authorities issued a set of press rules which enabled them to suspend The Contemporary and a number of other journals . |
| 18 | Ferguson added : ‘ When Eric joined Leeds last season , he gave them that extra bit which enabled them win the title . |
| 19 | Some ( e.g. pupil 3 ) attempted to obtain the answer to the question from the pattern of numbers relating to unshaded squares but most pupils saw the relationship between shaded and unshaded in each diagram which enabled them to calculate the required number directly . |
| 20 | He will drill small holes and insert an endoscope , a thin optical instrument with a light at one end which enables him to inspect the cavity . |
| 21 | In ‘ Jimmy Munro 's Troubles ’ ( Ex. 1.8 ) Corvan uses the banality of its phrasing , repetitions , sequences and harmonic structure to help construct a mock-simpleton persona which enables him to cloak the bite of his social criticism in humour ; he plays at ‘ acting the fool ’ , in tortuous verbal constructions and juxtapositions of the serious and the trivial — just as the ‘ Bow , Wow , Wow ’ song originally did — but the real problems of railway accidents , rent and ragged clothes turn the joke around . |
| 22 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 23 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 24 | Solicitors develop a detailed knowledge of the working of the business which enables them to represent the firm 's interests more effectively . |
| 25 | They are provided with guidance which enables them to take the initiative . |
| 26 | The secret of these organisations is that they have a power which enables them to keep the key people which they want , even if executive search consultants potentially and actually try to lure them away . |
| 27 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 28 | The SSA is up by 17.4 per cent. , which enables them to increase the precept by 15 per cent . |
| 29 | Even if the reason does n't seem fully convincing , or seems in itself unimportant , the process of analysing the word can sometimes serve as a trigger which enables you to remember the correct spelling . |
| 30 | A First National Bank loan puts valuable cash in your pocket and is an extremely flexible facility which enables you to choose the sum you wish to borrow at a monthly repayment you feel able to manage comfortably . |