Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] to allow [art] " in BNC.

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1 Language is sufficiently flexible to allow the construction of an infinite variety of singular terms which do not designate any entity .
2 This sample size is just sufficient to allow a limited number of measurements to be done .
3 This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up .
4 George Spotswood observed that the Irish Union , while recognising the problem of time-wasting in the scrum , is nevertheless keen to allow the side with a stronger scrummage to take advantage of it .
5 It is more difficult to allow a teacher to develop his own themes if the head of department is the tutor .
6 It is sometimes useful to allow the Set or Reset condition to take effect only when a pulse is applied to a third input called the Clock ( Ck ) .
7 ‘ That snipping is absolutely essential to allow the final virus to assemble . ’
8 We must conclude that , despite its initial attractions , the proposal that pragmatics be based on a notion of appropriateness should be discarded : language usage is too elastic to allow a pragmatic theory to be based on such a concept .
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