Example sentences of "allow [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would be a mistake to believe that from the beginning Baldwin exercised all the power and merely allowed MacDonald to sit in impotent glory in 10 Downing Street . |
| 2 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 3 | After the decline of the port , largely as a result of the abolition of slavery , this modernization once again allowed Bristol to compete with other great commercial docks such as Liverpool and London ( qq.v . ) . |
| 4 | Bob Kimmins heaved open the floodgates and Mike Fielden , Hesketh with a second , Brendan Hanavan , Allan Wyllie and Charles Cusani allowed Lancashire to pour through unopposed . |
| 5 | Politically , Britain was not prepared to allow WEU to intrude upon Anglo-American relationships , and placed it a poor second to NATO . |
| 6 | US President George Bush had announced on Aug. 11 that he had recommended that the US Treasury should provide guarantees to allow Israel to obtain on favourable terms credits worth US$10,000 million from private banks . |
| 7 | Office is the transport mechanism that down the road will allow Uniplex to break into mail-enabled process automation , the true definition of groupware . |
| 8 | The issue of internationalization remained the government 's first priority in aviation policy , because only this would allow Britain to compete on equal terms with the USA . |