Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 2 | About 5,800 of the West Midlands force 's 7,000 drivers have undergone tough advanced driving courses allowing them to drive a car with a siren . |
| 3 | It is difficult to see how the rock platform can entirely dissipate the wave energy , as , if the waves break on it , they must presumably erode it , thus ultimately allowing them to reach the foot of the cliff again . |
| 4 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 5 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 6 | It has been designed to lure shareholders by allowing them to keep a stake in LIN , and by offering a private fair market guarantee . |
| 7 | The Deee-Lite canvas has been stretched even tighter , allowing them to twist the dance beats of the last two decades into ever more kooky shapes . |
| 8 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 9 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 10 | Old Mrs Gardner , who ran the post office and general store — the only shop in the small Scottish village — knew where most of Mom 's widow 's pension went and suggested I should persuade her to sign a consent form , allowing me to collect the pension . |
| 11 | Alec Reid was wonderful — not only physically , carrying pans of hot water to the stove when necessary , but morally , in allowing me to treat a patient in such an unorthodox fashion . |
| 12 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 13 | Though steep , this disgorged a statutory quota of jugs and runners , allowing me to gain a band of slabs and ribs sandwiched between overhanging walls . |
| 14 | The bottom half hangs down , allowing me to transfer the envelope to inside my coat . |
| 15 | Although Reagan was a right-wing candidate , he was careful not to repeat the mistake of Goldwater in 1964 of allowing himself to appear an extremist . |
| 16 | A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht . |
| 17 | Because it is the grace of baptism administered to an infant which allows them to receive the grace of communion and therefore they are in essential , as well as being universal members of the church , they 're membe they 're communicant members of the church . |
| 18 | This probably allows them to detect the noise of predators . |
| 19 | Note too , the prehensile tail , which allows them to lift the forefront of their bodies on to their back legs to reach even further . |
| 20 | They may have access to video outside the classroom in their own homes or perhaps there is some arrangement in the language school which allows them to use the video player when it is n't in use in the classroom . |
| 21 | In the eyes of good practitioners self-control allows them to find a path around conflict . |
| 22 | It alerts the lender on any negative information and allows them to freeze the account , close it , adjust the limit or even to counsel the borrower . |
| 23 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 24 | Ling allows me to invade the kitchen after hours . ’ |
| 25 | It also allows me to determine the location and scale of a work in context . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most invaluable feature is the unique cable control that allows you to activate the stopwatch from a tailored finger grip . |
| 27 | This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein . |
| 28 | Interest Free Finance at Alexanders allows you to purchase the Rolex watch of your choice with a deposit of only ten percent and twelve monthly payments for the remainder . |
| 29 | The Pacer allows you to set a bleeper in five beat increments , ie , if you are 36 between 130 and 160 . |
| 30 | Just write the minus two all the way across there cos it allows you to do the calculation much easier rather than trying to remember it . |