Example sentences of "allowing it [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 2 | Voltaire 's work is , arguably , offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available . |
| 3 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 4 | This had the effect of significantly lowering the melting point of the niello , allowing it to be melted into finely engraved designs . |
| 5 | By adding a small amount of liquid soap to the water as you mix , it acquires a better texture , allowing it to be manipulation more easily . , |
| 6 | One acne theory has it that an enzyme deficiency permits testosterone ( the male sex hormone present in both men and women ) to run riot , allowing it to be converted within the skin into a by-product called dihydrotestosterone ( DHT ) which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands . |
| 7 | Also added to StreetTalk is the Advanced Object facility , which makes it easier to locate and identify network objects — such as users , resources , applications lists etc — by allowing it to be identified by name , and having an unlimited number of attributes associated with it . |
| 8 | In fact on the PDP-10 the descriptor contains a field specifying the character length , allowing it to be anything from one to 36 bits long . |
| 9 | Chetnik paid the rates not appreciating that by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act rates were not payable on any unoccupied hereditament for any period during which the owner was prohibited by law from occupying the hereditament or allowing it to be occupied . |
| 10 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 11 | Module headers may also be added to existing software , allowing it to be brought rapidly under LIFESPAN control . |
| 12 | This summer , a flock of 31 birds ( including some European flamingos — Phoenicopterus ruber rosus ) successfully raised four chicks at the site , thereby allowing it to be designated as the world 's most northerly wild flamingo colony . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |