Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] enable " in BNC.

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1 Serius has developed a library of objects designed to enable non-programmers to create custom applications by simply linking objects on a point-and-click basis .
2 Serius has developed a library of objects designed to enable non-programmers to create custom applications by simply linking objects on a point-and-click basis .
3 Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications .
4 In the West Cumbria project , funded by DOE , evaluation of existing geological records and mine plans has enabled solid and drift maps of the Coal Measures and Lower Carboniferous sequences to be compiled at 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 in more detail than was possible during the previous survey almost 60 years ago .
5 Apart from providing important evidence about the relationship between resources and performance in higher education , the demonstration of stable between-area assessment patterns has enabled the Modular Course to successively nudge each area into modifications of assessment practice which gradually bring them closer together .
6 Much work has been done and formulae developed to enable the dilution effect of chimney height to be calculated .
7 The mapping of these units has enabled a pattern of faulting to be recognised in the Upper Chalk outcrop that may have a bearing on its properties as an aquifer .
8 Skilful management of these relationships has enabled GBW to expand , increasing its worldwide presence and market share .
9 However , the relevant court system is not always so expensive and the methods adopted to enable the fair resolution of the dispute may not always be cheap .
10 Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea .
11 In addition , the short units have enabled a great variety of topics to be included .
12 Such satisfactions have enabled civilizations to persist over time , and they have not , therefore , been overthrown by the suppressed masses .
13 In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ .
14 The favour shown it by the Mongols had enabled it to consolidate its position across Russia long before the Muscovite State managed to do so .
15 These scholarships have enabled graduates to pursue such diverse studies as conducting and composition in Rome , piano in Vienna , and harpsichord in Amsterdam .
16 Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’
17 This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC .
18 Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals .
19 The unprecedented international growth of the Vekaplast organisation over the past 21 years has enabled us to explore and diversify into
20 The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars .
21 The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds .
22 The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " .
23 The experience in housing and nursing home care in Britain suggests that the level of state subsidies required to enable poor individuals to participate in such a market does not lead to a reduction in the total cost to the state .
24 Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al .
25 The large sums of money spent on the maltings have enabled manufacturing cost increases to be held well below inflation .
26 Or at best everybody could just come up to but nobody would be creating re er a surplus , nobody would have the resources to invest to enable them to come above subsistence
27 The powers given enable the rule-maker to direct that the regulated person must do certain things , but not to direct that that is all he or she must do .
28 Section 26 gives the Commission power to undertake studies designed to enable it to make recommendations for improving authorities ' ‘ economy , efficiency and effectiveness ’ .
29 But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease .
30 It also makes some changes in the existing law to remedy shortcomings revealed by experience , and contains some new provisions designed to enable the United Kingdom to ratify the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters of 1968 ( Cmnd 3991 of 1969 ) .
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