Example sentences of "allowing it [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blind off the sub-base with a layer of coarse sand allowing it to fill the remaining holes . |
| 2 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 3 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 4 | Basel takes place right at the end of the season after the New York contemporary art auctions , allowing it to have the last word on the state of the market . |
| 5 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Here he quickly became notorious for his stern management which turned the shipyard round , allowing it to survive the financial embarrassment of the owner in 1855 . |