Example sentences of "[adv] allow it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The purpose of the administration order is to allow the company an opportunity of finding an investor or partner thereby allowing it to survive , ’ said Jason Elles . |
| 2 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 3 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 4 | The real European complaint was that US financial power attracted funds to New York and that US industrial power was strong enough to allow it to organize successfully a large volume of production overseas . |
| 5 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard , which is a much bigger bird , and its claws are strong enough to allow it to grip on to my glove , so this is n't so much of a problem . |
| 6 | After a month or so , its head has developed sufficiently to allow it to open its jaws . |
| 7 | The regression itself will last approximately twenty minutes — the maximum length of time the human mind is able to concentrate sufficiently to allow it to take place . |
| 8 | The dolphin 's echolocation system is good enough not only to allow it to find fish but also to select its favourite food . |
| 9 | None are so efficient in obtaining specimens as the naked black , whose noiseless and gliding steps enable him to steel upon it unheard and unperceived , and with a gun in his hand he rarely allows it to escape , and in many instances , he will even kill it with his own weapons . ’ |
| 10 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 11 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 12 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
| 13 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 14 | Many of the smaller farmers continued to live therefore in the ancestral homestead on the village street , but carried out no repairs to it and gradually allowed it to decay . |
| 15 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 16 | The artefact 's affinity to the unconscious also allows it to play an important role in marking different forms of social reality , and allowing these and the perspectives arising from different social positions to exist concurrently without coming into overt conflict . |
| 17 | As the program is installed , you can elect to have Power Launcher entered as a startup program — or place it in the startup program group , which keeps your WIN.INI cleaner — and also allow it to replace the control button at the top left of every application window with its own red and white icon . |
| 18 | Such a phrase neglects the fact that the attack on the was a European literary fashion and that the Spanish was undergoing a complex change , which was later to allow it to revive some of its social and political influence . |
| 19 | Will he also allow it to set up an embassy in London ? |
| 20 | The wine — had she really allowed it to dim all her common sense , lull her into a false sense of security ? |
| 21 | In December 1990 Phillip 's offered ‘ The Entrance to Fen Lane ’ , consigned by a member of the Agnew family who had left it on show at Agnew 's for some years before offering it , even allowing it to appear on a television programme about the firm . |
| 22 | I therefore introduced the refinement of bending the infant whisker , by troubling the waters around the moment of its birth , and then simply allowing it to thicken until it broke , this was a little less clumsy but still highly unsatisfactory . |
| 23 | A step-by-step approach is required : first to entice the dog into the car , then allow it to become used to resting here without being driven off . |
| 24 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 25 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 26 | For Franco , the key to survival lay in keeping the pot simmering , but never allowing it to boil over . |
| 27 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 28 | While you are waiting to cross , encourage the dog to sit at the kerb , and never allow it to wander out into the road on its own . |