Example sentences of "allowed [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a free country and people are allowed to sound off about the fur trade , about vivisection , about experimenting with live animals . |
| 2 | The duty on unleaded was simply allowed to go up by the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 4 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 5 | The kettle sang quite quickly and meanwhile the stove , never entirely allowed to go out in the winter , had coughed into life . |
| 6 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 7 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 8 | I do n't think you should be allowed to tinker around with the with things like this say within six months of a general election and that 's why they should have fixed term appointments . |
| 9 | Although such legal standards result in pollution concentrations being reduced to an acceptable level in a ‘ polluted ’ area , pollution in a ‘ clean ’ area is allowed to increase up to the standard . |
| 10 | Once I am happy , the men are allowed to stand down until the next patrol . |
| 11 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps everything — not that there is anything — should just have been allowed to come out into the open at that point . |
| 13 | The statutory requirement should no longer apply to the 250,000 or so companies that are below the VAT registration threshold of £36,600 , and those companies which meet the VAT cash accounting limit requirements ( £300,000 ) should be allowed to opt out of the audit provided there is unanimous agreement among the shareholders . |
| 14 | The Council of EC Social Affairs Ministers has agreed concessions under which the UK has been allowed to opt out of the proposed EC Directive which imposes a maximum working week of 48 hours . |
| 15 | The issue is whether these men are to be allowed to opt out of the rule of law … |
| 16 | Does the alleged damage caused to the turf really warrant this control , as opposed to the pleasure gained by youngsters being allowed to run on to the pitch after the game ? |
| 17 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 18 | Ha had things been allowed to run down over the war ? |
| 19 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 20 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |
| 21 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 22 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 23 | The Israeli government is firmly opposed to getting dragged into any post-Gulf negotiations ; having shown enough restraint to stay out of the war , they will claim the privilege of being allowed to stay out of the peace as well . |
| 24 | Sir Henry Cole thought that the answer to the problem was simple : Scott should remodel his proposals on the lines of Inigo Jones ' scheme for Whitehall Palace , and eventually Street asked in The Builder what was to be gained from changing the architect ; a Gothic building was appropriate , and Scott should be allowed to get on with the work . |
| 25 | We should be allowed to get on with the training and leave the generation of profit to those with the necessary expertise . |
| 26 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 27 | If allowed to get through to the biological medium , dirt particles could clog it up , and possibly smother the bacterial colony . |
| 28 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 29 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 30 | It was only last summer that she was allowed to get back in the swing . |