Example sentences of "[verb] allow [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst these techniques are still in their early stages of development , the programs are being designed to allow them to be applied in accordance with general design-office practice in the following manner . |
| 2 | To help get this message across the Come & See Programme is designed to allow us to be frank and open about what we do and to allow the public to hear the true story behind nuclear power . |
| 3 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 4 | ‘ The British refused to allow him to be lodged on sovereign US territory inside the embassy . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Scots who had refused to allow her to be brought up in England sent her , at the beginning of August , to France . |
| 6 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 7 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 8 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 9 | is passed to allow us to be , |
| 10 | But to have to allow it to be done in a strange place was impossible . |
| 11 | My behaviour was surely prompted by flaws in my character — flaws that had allowed me to be connected so incestuously with Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and the rest in the first place . |
| 12 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 13 | ‘ Only because you 've allowed it to be . |
| 14 | The British censors refused to allow it to be shown unless he removed the sex scene in the back of a car — or , as Nicholson put it , ‘ they did n't mind the fucking so much , it was the coming they objected to . |
| 15 | Jean d'Armagnac , following on the reluctance of the estates , meeting at Angoulême to contribute their share of a tax , refused to allow it to be collected in his lands , pleading ancient privileges which had always been enjoyed locally . |