Example sentences of "was allow [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were relatively few reports of irregularities : a Moscow journalist , in an experiment , found he was allowed to vote ten times in five different constituencies ; and in one of the Moscow districts there were 346 more votes cast than ballot papers that had been distributed . |
| 2 | So , with some limitations , I was allowed to choose new Directors whose short training films I 'd seen , or who 'd maybe done a couple of other jobs in serials , and get them to prove their mettle . |
| 3 | With the patient 's consent , the ENP was allowed to treat those conditions listed in Table 1 without reference to a doctor . |
| 4 | The Professor was told he was allowed to see diseased horses of subscribers only between one and three o'clock , and he was also told to avoid giving an opinion on any proposed purchaser of horses . |
| 5 | I was allowed to wear high heels for beauty contests , however , and when I started work , he always bought me expensive Italian leather . |
| 6 | Numbers had been revived but no Head Girl was allowed to create new ones . |
| 7 | They extended the treaty signed in 1977 upon independence , under which France guaranteed the country 's external security and was allowed to maintain military bases there . |
| 8 | Under the Marcos dictatorship , the army was allowed to exercise vast powers . |
| 9 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 10 | Under a 1937 agreement , PAA was allowed to operate two flights a week to the UK : it continued to do this during the war years , unmatched by BOAC . |
| 11 | Under the controversial agreement , Constantine was allowed to keep royal residences at Tatoi , near Athens and Mon Repos on the island of Corfu as well as a forest estate in Polydendri in central Greece . |
| 12 | William Charles 's sponsor was no less a gentleman than ‘ Robert Peckham Esquire this City 's Justice for the Borough of Southwark ’ , who was allowed to present three men to the said honour . |
| 13 | I heard reports of scuffles outside the ground because the turnstiles could n't cope with the late rush — amazingly , the game was allowed to start five minutes early — while inside the stadium many Scots , including the wives and girlfriends of the players , were subjected to verbal abuse . |
| 14 | The main bridge between the two was the Council of 500 members , appointed annually from the demes in proportion to their population — so for instance Eleusis was allowed to send eleven councillors to the city , and the great deme of Acharnai sent twenty-two , while some tiny demes like Pambotadai and Syhridai took it in turn to send a single councillor , each sending one every other year . |
| 15 | Every two months he was allowed to send 20 kilos of goods home to his family . |
| 16 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |