Example sentences of "[adj] to allow it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 2 | In any event , the dog may be too nervous to allow it to run free at this stage , and to be trusted to return to you . |
| 3 | As a result , the new temple was built to a single co-ordinated design , and the site levelled and terraced to allow it to extend over a wider area of the hill summit . |
| 4 | Mr Abalkin rejected this also , saying that the distortions in the economy are too great to allow it to work properly . |
| 5 | This will help as part of the socialization process , but do bear in mind that you will not be able to allow it to scamper about at the end of the journey until you return home , because it will not be fully protected at this stage . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 7 | She was not responsible for him and he was daft to allow it to become so bad . |
| 8 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 9 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |