Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] allowing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 2 | He urged the Government to recognise the danger of fuelling unemployment and undermining the economy in Scotland by allowing massive job cuts to take place in the public sector . |
| 3 | In October 1989 , after four years of dispute , the European Commission finally began its legal attack on the UK for allowing excess nitrate in the water supply of Norwich and Redbridge , and for illegal levels of bacteria and aluminium elsewhere . |
| 4 | Simon criticised Jesus for allowing such an immoral woman to touch him . |
| 5 | * The British government was also criticized at Strasbourg for allowing Scottish fishermen to cull up to 5,000 seals annually . |
| 6 | Shell is charged with polluting the River Mersey by allowing crude oil to enter the river at Bromborough , Wirral , on 19 August — contrary to the Control of Pollution Act of 1974 — from a fractured pipeline from Birkenhead 's Tranmere Oil Terminal to Shell 's Stanlow refinery at Ellesmere Port . |
| 7 | EC Foreign Ministers in Brussels on Dec. 8 criticized Greece for allowing Greek companies to violate UN sanctions by shipping oil to Serbia while at the same time withholding oil from Macedonia . |
| 8 | Synod will divulge a degree of flex no , quite seriously , a degree of flexibility and we 're grateful both to Eileen and er , to John for allowing that degree of flexibility to take place . |