Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The separation of West Germany from East Germany had helped guarantee Western security , given Germans an identification with Western values and aided the Franco-German rapprochement , allowing Germans to be safely integrated into the Atlantic alliance . |
| 2 | Writing is a motor skill which ensures that the same words written by different people are distinct — allowing signatures to be used as verification of identity . |
| 3 | Diary entries can be coded in a wide number of ways allowing activities to be carefully tracked and even accounted for through the built-in billing system . |
| 4 | In Britain we 're never very far from roads , phones , taxis , buses and trains , allowing plans to be changed pretty painlessly . |
| 5 | A further significant change in political religious attitudes occurred with the liberalization of legislation prohibiting contraceptives to be bought or sold , or even imported into the state . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 7 | On April 16 the Cabinet approved the introduction of a bill reducing the age at which individuals could be sold condoms from 18 to 17 , and allowing contraceptives to be sold in pubs , discos and supermarkets as well as by chemists and doctors . |
| 8 | Group personnel departments have sent out booking forms to be filled in and anyone interested will be given a time to attend the clinic . |
| 9 | The other scandal is the doctrinaire attitude of Labour-controlled councils such as Plymouth city council which , when Labour took control in May this year , halted for several months the previous Conservative policy of selling land to housing associations at concessionary prices , enabling rents to be kept down and output to be increased . |
| 10 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 11 | Dr Rydell 's car was fitted with a bat detector tuned to this bat 's echolocation calls , enabling individuals to be located up to 50 metres away . |
| 12 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 13 | Thus press-released information is given to analysts enabling calculations to be made of how the required change would affect a company 's results . |
| 14 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |
| 15 | And by the time local demand declined , a railway had been built enabling apples to be distributed across the entire North American continent . |
| 16 | The premises from which the prediction is derived will include the interconnected statements that constitute the theory under test , initial conditions such as previous positions of the planet and sun , auxiliary assumptions such as those enabling corrections to be made for refraction of light from the planet in the earth 's atmosphere , and so on . |
| 17 | The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place . |
| 18 | As the port took shape and London became the trading centre of Europe , an elaborate system of canals was built , leading away from the Thames , ramifying throughout the UK and enabling goods to be transported inland . |
| 19 | They also provide much useful information about performance generally , enabling managers to be better informed about the relative strengths and weaknesses of their operations . |
| 20 | The RNLI 's new dock and boat hoist came into use at the Poole depot in early June , enabling lifeboats to be lifted from the water and positioned anywhere in the yard for storage or inspection and work on underwater areas . |
| 21 | It is not unknown for senior partners or founding partners to be given an extended period but , whilst opinions may legitimately differ on this , in principle a common retirement age might seem to be less contentious and the lower the age the better . |
| 22 | Transactions in the discount market are normally very large , enabling profits to be made from deals involving differentials in discount rates of small fractions of 1 per cent . |
| 23 | There is no reason why a similar notional sum should not attach to any dependent person , including children , enabling payments to be made to whoever looks after them , whether at home or in some privately or publicly organised communal arrangement . |
| 24 | It outlines data on trade in all these substances ; hazard possibilities and accident records ; and quantifies the relative risks , enabling decisions to be made about the safest mode of carriage . |
| 25 | Management responsibilities are structured to ensure the effective delegation of authority , enabling decisions to be made promptly and efficiently . |
| 26 | Croatia agreed on Nov. 28 to allow UN peacekeeping forces to be deployed in areas of fighting ( i.e. not only on existing legal republican borders ) . |
| 27 | On Aug. 21 Nikolai Zhurbenko and Pavel Creanga , the heads of the commission monitoring the Dnestr ceasefire , reported that large numbers of arms had been surrendered and that warring groups had mostly disbanded , although Zhurbenko said that it was too soon for peacekeeping forces to be withdrawn . |
| 28 | Chapman saw that floodlighting , by enabling games to be played in the evening , would win people away from the rival attractions of dog racing ( ’ it does not make the slightest appeal to me ’ ) and the speedway . |
| 29 | As I mentioned earlier , techniques and equipment are developing rapidly ; teams are using thinner section aluminium to construct the raft sections , Kevlar is now used for bows , wooden Canadian paddles are either purchased or crafted and buoyancy aids are specially adapted to carry water bottles , etc , enabling drinks to be taken without interrupting the stroke . |
| 30 | These methods of categorizing components and assemblies thus enable production facilities to be used more efficiently , purchasing requirements to be known more accurately and the conforming of piece-parts and assemblies to functional constraints to be maintained . |