Example sentences of "allowed [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 2 | ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University . |
| 3 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 4 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 5 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 6 | Both HWIM and Hearsay-II used an architecture which allowed them to experiment with alternative means of getting started . |
| 7 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 8 | Although the radio monitoring system used by Siobhan Fahey allowed her to indulge in some frenzied dancing during the songs , it did her no favours in the vocal projection stakes . |
| 9 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 10 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 11 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 12 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 13 | In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date . |
| 14 | ‘ I am pleased that the test results allowed us to proceed with this new contract which will benefit both ScottishPower and Monktonhall . ’ |