Example sentences of "allow [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps self-belief does n't allow them to bridge that gap . ’ |
| 2 | And we will allow them to attract older students as well . |
| 3 | This would allow them to have some influence in the company ( unlike in Britain , where there has been no sizeable reservations of shares on a collective basis in the shape of employee trusts ) as shareholders as well as having worker-directors . |
| 4 | Ministers believe reduced commitments in Europe and Hong Kong will allow them to axe 14 battalions . |
| 5 | History teachers need to ensure that their pupils have the basic reference skills that will allow them to make effective use of books . |
| 6 | During the Kyoto session the southern African representatives advanced a compromise formula , which would allow them to resume regulated trade ( i.e. with reclassification of the African elephant to Appendix II ) , and to resume selling elephant hides and meat , but with an initial zero quota ( until 1994 ) for ivory . |
| 7 | A benefit suggested by 17% of the wives from the ‘ substitution attendance ’ was that it would allow them to help each other out in emergencies . |
| 8 | If the whole system of deaf education is based on underexpectation and the undervaluing of deaf people 's abilities , then it becomes remarkably easy to make sure that the system does not allow them to develop these abilities . |
| 9 | It is important to get that correction — if he will allow me to use that word — on the record . |
| 10 | I hope my duties will allow me to spend some time with you , but I will be attending this evening 's Red Rose Rally and I look forward to seeing you there . |
| 11 | ‘ As an investor , I have to say that this environment does not allow me to put more money into Hong Kong . |
| 12 | Great Frank , but unfortunately my strengths just do n't allow me to run that way . |
| 13 | ‘ You must allow me to keep some secrets . ’ |
| 14 | While the short-term expediency of such a position may be understood in the light of the desperate state of access to inland waters in England and Wales , as paddlers we must never allow ourselves to give any solace to the polluters . |
| 15 | The AccuFilter Water Purifying Straw , £6.99 , does allow you to drink any water straight through the straw , which filters up to 98.2 per cent of 151 known harmful chemicals and pollutants that are found in suspect water supplies . |
| 16 | The use of zeolite to remove the ammonia might allow you to stock more fish — but it would also interrupt the ‘ flow ’ of nitrites to the bacteria and stop them multiplying . |
| 17 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 18 | Your PC will allow you to save larger designs than this , as it has a much larger memory capacity . |
| 19 | Now , what layout of the cards would allow you to score five diamond tricks without loss ? |
| 20 | A singleton honour offside will also allow you to score five tricks if you pick it right . |
| 21 | The first and most obvious is that they still wo n't allow you to do decent halftoning — you need a minimum of 800 by 800 to achieve anything like quality results in terms of both grey levels and screen values . |
| 22 | The Shareware version does n't allow you to sort any records and will not carry out automatic standing orders , which is a shame as it is difficult to evaluate a program that is not fully working . |
| 23 | It has very fast reference and search facilities and it will allow you to open multiple windows for comparisons . |
| 24 | You 're right to want more Conventional RAM as it will allow you to run bigger programs — some games wo n't run with less than 610Kb of free RAM . |
| 25 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 26 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 27 | The maximum display resolution is 1024 x 768 with 256 colour , and the card comes with a disk containing the graphics drivers and some useful utilities such as XMODE which will allow you to emulate different video modes to suit the of software you are running . |
| 28 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 29 | I shall be happy to give way to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) if Mr. Speaker will allow him to answer that question . |
| 30 | The CAD operator has at his disposal a range of commands which will allow him to reposition all elements of the mechanism within the reference space . |