Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 2 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 3 | Mr. McAllion : The period of between six and 16 months during which employees will be allowed to remain in the TOPS is to enable trade union representatives and the new employers to negotiate new pension arrangements . |
| 4 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 5 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 6 | Erm and I But there again , if it was a controlled access to the flats , and people was n't allowed to wander through the flats . |
| 7 | ‘ We are allowed to wander on the grounds here , but at Risley , it was all grey , all grey concrete . ’ |
| 8 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 9 | If children are allowed to come between the parents in this priority structure , they are being allowed to break the very model that God intended to teach them . |
| 10 | There they form the sole basis of the electoral system , and it is therefore indispensable that voters should be allowed to choose between the candidates they include . |
| 11 | The IMF was then authorized to ration that currency among its member countries , and the latter were allowed to discriminate against the exports of the country in question . |
| 12 | I was allowed to play with the greasepaints and I can still smell that ginger wig with its clammy net under the coarse hair . |
| 13 | ‘ It is nothing whatever to do with the cameras which are in any case not allowed to pan along the benches . ’ |
| 14 | Fortunately for the players , only accredited golfing journalists were allowed to encroach on the fairways and everyone else was kept firmly behind the ropes and barriers which ran along the perimeter of each hole . |
| 15 | The longer seed is allowed to form in the pods , the shorter the productive life of the plants will be . |
| 16 | A substantial number of Conservative MPs argued that parents of prospective pupils should be allowed to vote on the grounds that the parents of prospective pupils have a bigger stake in the future of the school than parents whose children are in their final year and who will not therefore be affected by any changes . |
| 17 | Yesterday , the Londonbased Irish Emigrants Voice campaign renewed its demands for Britain 's Irish community to be allowed to vote in the elections . |
| 18 | The rope should never be allowed to run between the legs , for all too obvious reasons . |
| 19 | If I did marry Parr , and had two little children and made a lovely home , I 'd be allowed to run off the rails a bit , so long I was discreet . |
| 20 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 21 | If this happens some two hundred and nineteen thousand will be available within the medium term plan period , if the three per cent was allowed to contribute towards the items listed in Appendix B , previous paper , Chairman the recommendations are contained in Section B. |
| 22 | In Brooke-Rose 's later work this relationship is reversed as linguistic felicities are allowed to pierce through the layers of the harmonious hierarchical structure of narrative ontology ; rather than replacing pun with metaphor , Brooke-Rose transforms the one into the other . |
| 23 | The deal , believed to be unique in Britain , will give 24year-old Chris , pictured , the chance of staying as an amateur until the next Olympics , or until professional cyclists are allowed to compete in the games . |
| 24 | The local unemployment rate , which was allowed to vary between the periods , has no significant effect on the offer arrival rate in any model . |
| 25 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 26 | Still , we have to this extent moved on , that not merely are we , in the context of this phenomenon , allowed to refer to the facts but we are actually now allowed to criticise those who suppress the facts . |
| 27 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 28 | If you tilt your pelvis upwards , your abdomen automatically pulls in and your buttocks tighten , helping to straighten the ‘ S ’ shape that may have been allowed to develop over the years . |
| 29 | She has only one of her sons staying at home in South Ronaldsay and is concerned that she may never be allowed to care for the others . |
| 30 | ‘ Am I allowed to ask about the pills ? ’ |