Example sentences of "[was/were] allowed [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the SD Ribbon especially successful with complex , large scale music ( choral , operatic , large orchestral ) where its scale and authority , and well defined and authoritative midband were allowed to do their best . |
| 2 | And as a special favour , she believed , they were allowed to leave their top button unfastened . |
| 3 | During his illness he dreamt of the after-life , where kings , rulers and princes were reduced from their high station to fetching and carrying as servants , and only the high priests , gods and one or two favoured dead kings were allowed to preserve their earthly privileges . |
| 4 | In the motorway service areas , Trusthouse Forte alone have invested over £80 million since they were allowed to purchase their leases . |
| 5 | The medical profession were reluctant to accept the creation of the NHS and to obtain their agreement to the creation of the service they were allowed to retain their private practices . |
| 6 | The Yugoslavs were allowed to retain their non-aligned status , and kept to their ‘ national path to communism ’ which differed in important respects from that of the other communist-ruled countries . |
| 7 | Only residents were allowed to drive their cars into the city . |
| 8 | In the event , the Tatars , remarkably and unexpectedly , were allowed to hold their demonstration without police harassment , and following discussions with government representatives a commission headed by then President Gromyko was established to ‘ study the merits of their case ’ . |
| 9 | I sewed curtains and quilts and the boys were allowed to choose their own colour schemes and furnishings . |
| 10 | The seriously debated motion , which demanded non-cooperation unless teachers were allowed to choose their own appraisers and then to keep the resulting reports as their personal property , left me dumbfounded . |
| 11 | Observers were allowed to choose their own units ( inches or cm ) to make the judgements . |
| 12 | All UNACO operatives were allowed to choose their own handguns and , although he had initially used a Colt .45 , there had been one main reason for his converting to the Beretta : its magazine capacity fifteen rounds as opposed to the Colt 's seven . |
| 13 | The dogs were allowed to drag their handlers closer to the ranks of men as the roll-call was made . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's semi-finalists were allowed to select their own set of stones . |
| 15 | Now they spent a year and the officers were allowed to bring their wives . |
| 16 | The ex-peasant Maxim Gorky threatened to renounce his Soviet citizenship on discovering ‘ this intellectual vampirism ’ , as he called it , but Krupskaia 's directives were allowed to pursue their philistine course . |
| 17 | Spain , Greece , Ireland and Portugal were allowed to keep their controls until the end of 1992 . |
| 18 | It was only after protests from landlords that they were allowed to have their say . |
| 19 | Where peasants were already working areas larger than the maximum , landowners were allowed to trim their holdings . |
| 20 | On the other hand they were allowed to criticize their teachers , something unthinkable before the Cultural Revolution . |
| 21 | Hence the attempt to ‘ hold the scales evenly between those who were allowed to develop their land and those who were not ’ was abandoned , but the use of 1947 development values as a ‘ permanent basis for compensation ’ safeguarded the public purse . |
| 22 | Without needing to do more than put down sporadic resistance from the more independent clans , the 30,000 Syrian troops guarding the Bekaa for the heroin cartel were allowed to augment their pay by up to $1 billion a year in protection money . |