Example sentences of "allowed [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 With ever-increasing numbers at Stirling University , it is imperative that SUSA is allowed to continue to build on the current provision of social , welfare and commercial services so essential to all students .
2 The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle 's started purchasing from outside suppliers .
3 Justified copy also has the effect of looking more authoritative than ragged setting — where the right-hand margin is allowed to float according to the amount that can be fitted onto the line .
4 He will not be allowed to try getting into the bath until he is capable of making all the necessary movements with full control , and no increase in his spasticity .
5 French fists were shaken under her chin , brakes screamed , words I was n't allowed to use hung in the air .
6 The Bishops of Rochester now mostly lived at their Palace at Rochester or Lambeth , the houses at Halling and Trottescliffe being allowed to decay owing to the expense of maintaining them .
7 It is perfectly possible to build a tag that , for example , creates a blank page before it but is not allowed to become separated from the next block of text .
8 This power , above all things should be the unfailing ally of the forces trying to maintain law and order but it has been allowed to become weakened to the point that it is almost non-existent in the mental make-up of a great many people .
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