Example sentences of "[adv] to allow [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one takes this as a statement obliquely concerning the Marxist political project , it has a certain validity , in that it brings out the difference between Marxism and ‘ meritocratic ’ , or social-democratic notions of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ : the Marxist project is not merely to allow access to the privileged classes for the most ‘ able ’ individuals from all sections of society , but to transform the class structure ( to eliminate private possession of the major means of production and hierarchical management , and to institute a democratically socialised appropriation ) . |
| 2 | This many be because the rat model was not exposed to an intiating factor or that 18 months was still not long enough to allow cancer to develop . |
| 3 | The Lords can publicise matters and delay action for long enough to allow public opinion to make itself felt . |
| 4 | The programme should be guided by the general principles given in Part 2 but these are flexible enough to allow modification to suit different families ' individual needs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fifteen days after the accident , the black necrotic skin at the base of the wound was soft enough to allow removal using a pair of sterile scissors . |
| 7 | In the second round Trentham began to land the odd punch , but never hard enough to allow Tommy to go down . |
| 8 | The secret of GORE-TEX fabrics lies in a unique protective membrane with around 9 billion pores per square inch ; too small for water to pass through , but large enough to allow perspiration vapour to escape . |
| 9 | ‘ Maastricht went too far for public opinion , but not far enough to allow Europe to deal effectively with the problems it faces , such as Yugoslavia , ’ says an exasperated German official . |
| 10 | The degree programme is designed to be flexible enough to allow emphasis on language or literature depending on preference . |
| 11 | I blame both local councillors in Scotland and Scottish Members of Parliament , from both sides of the House , who were stupid enough to allow revaluation in Scotland to continue after the English stopped it in 1973 . |
| 12 | Here , one transfer price ( usually representing cumulative variable costs ) is charged to the buying division , while another ( which will be high enough to allow profit ) is credited to the selling division . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Low-pass filter is steep enough to allow sound sample rate of twice signal frequency , with attenuation of better than 50dB at 20kHz . |
| 15 | In most casings this makes it pretty awkward to get at , but the Sigma 's casing is spacious enough to allow access to these vital sockets . |
| 16 | The method proved much cheaper than the conventional equipment currently used to monitor pollution levels , and is quick enough to allow recognition of pollution hotspots and the drawing up of weekly pollution maps . |
| 17 | In the longer term the objective would be to process payroll and personnel work internally and a replacement system may be powerful enough to allow use of a tailored software package from Chessington . |
| 18 | Although the degree of compression is not enough to allow retrieval from a compact disc , using a fast magnetic hard disc , reasonable full screen full motion video can be achieved . |
| 19 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 20 | If pure sands can be given sufficient organic matter to retain moisture and provide plant nutrients , they need no further structure as the pores between sand particles are large enough to allow drainage and sand can not be compacted into a ‘ pan ’ . |
| 21 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 22 | Motherwell took 27 minutes to create their first chance when Chris McCart carved out an opening for Joe McLeod , but the striker hesitated long enough to allow Brian Irvine to block the effort . |
| 23 | Farmers are simply not moving fast enough to allow people who are desperately keen to change their diet to do so effectively . |
| 24 | Three of these studies , from Cologne , Leeds , and Sheffield , have provided comparative data on large numbers of patients and their combined experience of 149 subjects over the age of 65 years ( the German patients were 70 and over ) is large enough to allow comparison with 475 younger patients from the same centres . |
| 25 | Bruised knuckles can be bandaged and this , together with the mitt , means that they are cushioned sufficiently to allow punches to be used . |
| 26 | This can shrink the tumour , often sufficiently to allow surgery . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 28 | Leakey added that elephant populations had not yet recovered sufficiently to allow trade to resume , but predicted that talks with pro-trading states would continue . |
| 29 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 30 | The digger was wounding the tubers sufficiently to allow infection . |