Example sentences of "[adv] to allow [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the financial institutions of the City closed for the weekend the normally bustling streets were clear enough to allow bursts of sixty to seventy miles an hour . |
| 2 | Depending on the severity of the cold , they will keep an area of about 300mm ( 1ft ) diameter clear of ice , which is usually enough to allow gases to escape . |
| 3 | Bruised knuckles can be bandaged and this , together with the mitt , means that they are cushioned sufficiently to allow punches to be used . |
| 4 | Or , must some bridging material be built in to allow cameras or cast time to get to the next set ? |
| 5 | The prevalent analyses of causation seem justifiably only to allow events and possibly agents as causes . |
| 6 | In a radio address broadcast early on May 22 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman urged people to " maintain the utmost calm " and " not to allow passions to overtake them " . |
| 7 | The manufacturers of the aircraft , Boeing , said that they would review the report 's recommendations but stressed that the best precaution was " not to allow bombs on aircraft " . |
| 8 | It must have very clear , fresh water and therefore the water should be changed very frequently , and great care should be taken not to allow algae growth . |
| 9 | Not to allow voters a referendum in Britain would be to ‘ betray the trust … they have placed in us ’ . |
| 10 | Although recent advice to mothers warning them not to allow babies to sleep on their stomachs or get too warm has helped considerably , health experts said there is no single answer . |
| 11 | Again , consistency when training is important , and it is generally better not to allow dogs on to furniture . |
| 12 | THE giant Rank Organisation is all set to fight a planning authority decision not to allow caravans to remain on a site forming part of the Butlin Starcoast World holiday centre near Pwllheli . |
| 13 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 14 | The ‘ Schools tor Mothers ’ and ‘ Babies ’ Welcomes ' , set up by volunteers from 1908 onwards , set out to teach women to breast feed their children , so as to avoid the problem of contaminated milk and unhygienic feeding bottles ; to follow a strict feeding schedule ; not to allow dummies ; not to use inflammable flannelette clothing and not to permit the infant to sleep with its parents for fear of suffocating . |
| 15 | Apart from an interval for lunch , the meeting continued until 3.30 p.m. and then adjourned until 7.00 p.m. to allow representatives to report to their parties and organisations . |
| 16 | The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation . |
| 17 | The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would . |
| 18 | Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock . |
| 19 | Arms threw dirt aside , stiffly pulling torsos out of the earth , shoulders shovelling the dirt aside to allow heads to rise and turn uncertainly , glancing about blankly through bulging eyes which looked at everything and saw nothing . |
| 20 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 21 | Simple systems will be set up to allow complaints to be registered and responses given if things go wrong . |
| 22 | The network of Training Enterprise Councils ( TEC ) has been set up to allow strategies for dealing with vocational training , employment needs , new enterprise and economic development to be handled at a local level by a single local body , which benefits from the practical experience and local knowledge of the employers and others who serve on its board . |
| 23 | The International Committee of Medical Journal editors should consider the sorts of issue discussed by Dewey and how a mechanism might be set up to allow authors ' grievances to be aired . |
| 24 | This train , like every other one , was packed to the doors , and when it was left in sidings periodically to allow trains of troops , and ammunition and essential war materials to plod by , the hum of conversation hung about the carriages almost tangibly . |
| 25 | Now the government 's being called on to allow councils to buy repossessed houses and rent them out.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 26 | Terminology is required in particular here to allow distinctions to be made between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language , and to show that the grammar of spoken English is different from that of written English , and not just a haphazard deviation from it . |
| 27 | They are the first tests of legal reforms introduced two months ago to allow judges ' secrecy orders to be reviewed . |
| 28 | Rotational needs — the venue may change when meetings are held regularly to allow delegates equal ease of access |
| 29 | The Library 's Whitley Council meets regularly to allow representatives of the trade unions to discuss with management matters of common concern . |
| 30 | Since what we are trying to achieve under the Charities Act is a greater responsibility , a greater public awareness , then to allow charities which are companies limited by guarantee to disclose less does not serve the purpose . ’ |