Example sentences of "enable [noun pl] to [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was also growing support for legislation to impose a seven-day waiting period to enable checks to be made on prospective gun purchasers .
2 to enable entries to be selected on a ‘ next requiring attention ’ basis .
3 The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance .
4 This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role .
5 Thus press-released information is given to analysts enabling calculations to be made of how the required change would affect a company 's results .
6 And by the time local demand declined , a railway had been built enabling apples to be distributed across the entire North American continent .
7 The premises from which the prediction is derived will include the interconnected statements that constitute the theory under test , initial conditions such as previous positions of the planet and sun , auxiliary assumptions such as those enabling corrections to be made for refraction of light from the planet in the earth 's atmosphere , and so on .
8 The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place .
9 The RNLI 's new dock and boat hoist came into use at the Poole depot in early June , enabling lifeboats to be lifted from the water and positioned anywhere in the yard for storage or inspection and work on underwater areas .
10 Transactions in the discount market are normally very large , enabling profits to be made from deals involving differentials in discount rates of small fractions of 1 per cent .
11 There is no reason why a similar notional sum should not attach to any dependent person , including children , enabling payments to be made to whoever looks after them , whether at home or in some privately or publicly organised communal arrangement .
12 It outlines data on trade in all these substances ; hazard possibilities and accident records ; and quantifies the relative risks , enabling decisions to be made about the safest mode of carriage .
13 Chapman saw that floodlighting , by enabling games to be played in the evening , would win people away from the rival attractions of dog racing ( ’ it does not make the slightest appeal to me ’ ) and the speedway .
14 As I mentioned earlier , techniques and equipment are developing rapidly ; teams are using thinner section aluminium to construct the raft sections , Kevlar is now used for bows , wooden Canadian paddles are either purchased or crafted and buoyancy aids are specially adapted to carry water bottles , etc , enabling drinks to be taken without interrupting the stroke .
15 In the area of economy the microprocessor will have a growing effect , enabling engines to be programmed for optimum performance under different driving conditions .
16 The 1968 Transport Act ( which established the National Bus Company ) recognized this , and brought the county councils into the provision of bus services to enable subsidies to be made for socially necessary but loss-making services ( Moseley 1979a ) .
17 For convenience , and to enable comparisons to be made with other Scottish economic statistics and UK export statistics , the estimates presented in this report are shown as calendar year values , although they are in fact a compromise between calendar year and financial year values .
18 In the present study , the thesis has been treated as a quasi-formal entity , which possesses enough attributes of the formal to enable comparisons to be drawn with fully formal conventional publications , such as journal articles , but which also possesses some elements of informal , personal communication , in that it can be regarded as the fulfilment of a one-to-one contract between the researcher and the university .
19 The package used allows the records in the Consultation List be ‘ flagged ’ to enable extracts to be taken from the Master List .
20 The Chinese approach to landscape , including the forces underlying their concept of dragons , will be examined in the next chapter , which may enable parallels to be drawn with British examples .
21 Even if high prices are not charged , an innovation may give an investment bank an advantage in gaining mandates , which may enable losses to be converted into " normal " profits .
22 A well-thought-out cost breakdown and related coding system will enable costs to be reprocessed through the computer and presented to management in a variety of ways .
23 The technique has enabled spectra to be obtained from the metallic cores of some important biological molecules such as hemoglobin and some enzymes , where the low concentration of the metal and the low solubility of the substance itself make it difficult to study vibrational spectra in any other way .
24 This will enable games to be bought in CD form rather than cartridge .
25 This will enable dividends to be paid by Target to Newco without Target being liable to pay ACT and charges on income ( such as interest payments ) to be paid by Target to Newco without deduction of basic rate income tax under s349 TA 1988 .
26 A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues .
27 Comparisons with other societies will enable conclusions to be drawn concerning the adaptability of British society to economic change .
28 A property which has enabled claims to be made for extending disinfection intervals or conferring protection against re-contamination .
29 Perhaps the real reason for the temporary arrangements at Stretford Bridge was to enable trains to be run between there and Bishop 's Castle before agreement to work over the joint line had been reached .
30 This amounts to a portfolio or collection of possibilities ranked on an agreed basis to enable decisions to be made on allocation of resources .
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