Example sentences of "that allowed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health : The choice that allowed a life for Sophie : Pregnant at 37 , Belinda Whiting decided against screening . |
| 2 | The freehold was purchased at a reasonable price in a complicated deal that allowed for a sensitive refurbishment of the grade 1-listed building and a limit of 30 hotel bedrooms . |
| 3 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 4 | They remember , acutely , the blank cheque that Lyndon Johnson got from Congress in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution that allowed him to fight in Vietnam . |
| 5 | Fortunately for the world , John Kennedy 's team was wise enough to create the pause that allowed Khrushchev to pull back . |
| 6 | Watching him speak , and seeing the man he was , I realized the distress that allowed him to reveal his feelings to me . |
| 7 | What slight hope the East London club retain of sharing in the projected Premier League bonanza was dimmed further here by two pieces of sloppy defending that allowed Chelsea to end a run of four games without a win more easily than the one-goal margin might suggest . |
| 8 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 9 | In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date . |
| 10 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 11 | ( 1981 ) conducted several experiments ( Fig. 3.8(a) constitutes an example ) that allowed the relevant comparison and all agreed in showing that the latent inhibition seen at 4 h was just as profound after brief exposure as after lengthy exposure . |
| 12 | It was this humiliating act that allowed God 's revelation to take place in her heart . |
| 13 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 14 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 15 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 16 | It did this through ratecapping , a system that allowed central government to dictate rate-calls set by some or all local councils , and by joint boards governing areas such as fire , police and transport , established as a result of the abolition of the metropolitan counties . |
| 17 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 18 | Prussian canal-building projects meant that by 1914 Danzig was linked to a network of waterways that allowed inland trade with the Rhine , Bordeaux , Le Havre , Brussels , Antwerpen , and northern Germany up to the Danish border . |
| 19 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 20 | It was largely this greater efficacy in the treatment of epidemic infections which were such a scourge in those days that allowed homoeopathy to spread so quickly . |
| 21 | It was this rivalry that allowed the bank to continue to function after the Tampa arrests , much to Mazur 's disgust . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , it was Major 's readiness to use this language ( which , interestingly , Mrs Thatcher , in her effluvial megalomania , regards as Marxist ) that allowed people to vote Conservative , albeit not with a clear conscience . |
| 23 | It was a cosy arrangement that allowed Scotland to retain its separate identity within the United Kingdom — a kind of home rule by quango . |
| 24 | One young woman was particularly bitter about the system that allowed situations like this to develop . |
| 25 | High on its waterless ridge , Battle grew with the fortunes of its abbey , but never achieved the sort of wealth that allowed Chichester to assert its independence . |
| 26 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 27 | The Leeds victory was partly based on David Rocastle 's holding role in midfield that allowed Gary Speed to get forward so effectively . |
| 28 | The Order concerned ( SI 1991 No 1729 ) replaces references to ‘ subsidiary ’ in Part VIII of the Act with ‘ subsidiary undertaking ’ and deletes the sections ( 72(5) and ( 6 ) ) that allowed societies ' group accounts not to deal with subsidiaries in certain circumstances . |
| 29 | This model gave off a steady hum that allowed it to be used indoors without disturbance to neighbours . |
| 30 | He claimed the punishment and the law that allowed it was an ‘ inhuman and degrading ’ breach of the European convention on human rights . |