Example sentences of "[adv] allowing [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 2 | On 1 March , 1986 , the 29.9% ceiling on the outside ownership of Stock Exchange firms was abolished altogether , thereby allowing a single non-member to own 100% of a member firm . |
| 3 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now , even at this late stage , intervene to try to stop the closure , bearing in mind the Government 's responsibility for privatising the steel industry , thereby allowing a butcher such as Bob Scholey to betray the Scottish steel workers ? |
| 4 | Update Baseline allows a user to incorporate a specified list of approved modules into a hierarchical package structure , thereby allowing a new approved baseline to be automatically defined . |
| 5 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |
| 6 | Holders of the prefs will forego dividends in return for 13.7 per cent compound growth over the trust 's seven years , thereby allowing the managers to increase dividends to ordinary shareholders who will hold two-thirds of the capital . |
| 7 | A simultaneous thinning and shrinking of the sea ice lessens its albedo , or reflectivity , thereby allowing the oceans to absorb more heat from the sun . |
| 8 | You can unhook by taking the weight of the rig back on to your arms , thereby allowing the rope to fall out of the hook . |
| 9 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 10 | The London Society implicitly recognises this when it goes on to argue that a DG would allow the president 's post to become part-time , thereby allowing the senior partner of a major practice to take it on . |
| 11 | They are even willing to give parents a much needed rest in the evenings by listening out for the children ( once settled ) , thereby allowing the parents time off . |
| 12 | In Great Britain , and especially midlands England , the enclosure movement involved the use of Parliamentary Acts to alter the pattern of land ownership ( forcibly in many cases ) , thereby allowing the creation of a new pattern of farms and fields within which more productive ( and less labour intensive ) agricultural methods could be employed . |
| 13 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 14 | The DCs were attached to the package under the name of the senior programmer , and became ‘ active ’ , thereby allowing the modification to proceed . |
| 15 | In Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass , a shop manager of a large supermarket chain with considerable managerial powers , was held to be " another person " , thereby allowing the company to escape liability for a breach of the TDA 1968 when a misleading price offer was displayed due to his failure to check it . |
| 16 | Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win . |
| 17 | Instead , two short stub axles are coupled together allowing the wheels to slip independently of each other . |
| 18 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 19 | I feel it needs a few points tidied up such as data entry checking , i.e. only allowing a maximum of 8 characters to be typed into a date field and being able to press Esc to return to menu at any time during data entry . |
| 20 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 21 | The proposal is that from 1 August , self-drive hire firms etc should account for tax on a tax-inclusive basis on disposal , so allowing the margin scheme to operate as now . |
| 22 | Tariffs and trade restrictions were to be reduced only gradually , so allowing the EEC to concur with the world organisation , GATT , to which the OEEC states belonged . |
| 23 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 24 | Alia again made concessions , agreeing that more than one party could contest the forthcoming elections and so allowing the formation of Albania 's first opposition party in 46 years , the Democratic party [ ibid . ] . |
| 25 | The three upper floors had been peeled away allowing the chimney breast to rise , unhindered , to the roof . |
| 26 | passive , listening means just allowing the language to flow over you , absorbing the feel of it . |
| 27 | Taking a little live yoghurt or a lactobacillus supplement ( available as acidophilus capsules : the best are enteric coated , which prevent the capsule dissolving in the stomach where the acidophilus would be killed by the stomach juices thus allowing a safe passage to the lower gut where they are needed ) will often help to restore this balance more quickly . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend accept the thanks of the whole House for agreeing to extend last night 's debate until midnight , thus allowing a large number of Members to be called ? |
| 29 | A number of trees could be linked together , each tree representing ( e.g. ) a morphological class such as prefixes , stems and so on , thus allowing a word to be decomposed into morphological units . |
| 30 | The nominalist impulse , therefore , which originates from the attempt to make generality in the world a creation of mind — thus allowing the extra-mental world to consist only of particulars — eventually leads to trying to explain the powers of the mind entirely in terms of the work of particulars . |