Example sentences of "allow [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History teachers need to ensure that their pupils have the basic reference skills that will allow them to make effective use of books . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 4 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 5 | This would allow us to make any changes we felt were appropriate and would highlight any unforeseen problems . |