Example sentences of "allowed [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Working in Malawi allowed me to witness the commitment of that small country to its wildlife . |
| 2 | This would have given the BRDC a £1.4m profit on their orginal investment and allowed them to retain the right to five per cent of any future public flotation . |
| 3 | The variety of television news ( and current affairs ) programmes allowed them to choose the degree of depth and detail they wanted , but not the political viewpoints expressed . |
| 4 | During the miners ' strike , for instance , it hosted dayschools and conferences for ordinary NUM members and miners ' wives groups , which allowed them to discuss the direction that events were taking . |
| 5 | Under this threat , Gaitskell allowed them to increase the investment allocation for supplying industry and new housing estates , though there were some cuts in the rural electrification programme . |
| 6 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 7 | ‘ Pompey 's third goal killed us off and allowed them to run the show . |
| 8 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 9 | Outside he allowed her to examine the bird . |
| 10 | Reluctantly , Piphros allowed her to lead the way past the suit . |
| 11 | He allowed her to take the bag and then brushed past and headed for the door . |
| 12 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 13 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 14 | Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 . |
| 15 | He was sitting at an angle which allowed him to watch the door . |
| 16 | Native Mission was unlucky in Ireland a month ago when jockey Mark Dwyer allowed him to hit the front too soon in the Ladbroke Hurdle at Leopardstown and was only caught within strides of the winning post . |
| 17 | Another flash of lightning allowed him to see the figure of a woman running towards the rick . |
| 18 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 19 | So Ronni kept still and allowed him to hold the glass to her lips . |
| 20 | Phil said how much he enjoyed the day , and how breaking his own sales barriers allowed him to break the sound barrier . |
| 21 | The court allowed him to write the address on a piece of paper , rather than state it publicly . |
| 22 | She smiled at him , accepting the love and the irony both , and allowed him to end the discussion . |
| 23 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 24 | Like a zombie she let him lead her from Tivoli , allowed him to fasten the seatbelt of the Mercedes round her , followed him into the apartment , standing motionless while he switched on the soft wall lighting . |
| 25 | That allowed it to weather the Thatcher bombardment . |
| 26 | One , near Cork , allowed us to feed the kids in the backpacker 's kitchen , put them to bed in our basic but spotless large room ( £20 for all of us ) , then settle down to a sumptuous gourmet meal in their separate restaurant . |
| 27 | In entertainment I 'd think the reduc cost reductions there were pretty well , er restricted to good housekeeping , but from fine china er , we managed to transfer the , the er , work in the Minton factory to the Knowle Street factory and that allowed us to close the Minton factory and quite apart from the redundancies that entailed , we saved something like two hundred and fifty thousand er , non staff related overhead . |
| 28 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 29 | A control group without active treatment allowed us to compare the results . |
| 30 | This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later . |