Example sentences of "[pron] allow them [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds obtained a twenty-one-year agreement with the Severn-Trent Water Authority which allows them to manage best for wildlife the 16,000 acres of the Vyrnwy Estate .
2 In America , brokers acting as price stabilisers arrange what is known as a ‘ green shoe ’ — an agreement which allows them to go back , cap in hand , to the issuing company and simply ask for more new shares to cover their position .
3 Many nocturnal insects have a slightly different compound eye which allows them to gather more light .
4 These professional quality hand saws have an aggressive tooth formation which allows them to cut efficiently and smoothly on both forward and reverse strokes .
5 British-born speakers , on the other hand , occupy a position which allows them to mediate both linguistically and culturally between the Caribbean and Britain .
6 For these boats a sail which allows them to compete more evenly under handicap rules has obvious advantages .
7 Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance .
8 They become involved in schemes which allow them to use up their energy .
9 He argued that social , political and bureaucratic elites have their own sources of political power which allow them to act relatively autonomously or independently of the requirements of capital .
10 While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things .
11 They follow different designs from our own , all of which allow them to tune in to water-borne sounds .
12 And that , frozen for ten or fifteen years , the countries of the East must painstakingly provide full democratic credentials before she allows them to move forward .
13 Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can
14 They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment .
15 You can grow plants with u/g filters , if you allow them to root well before turning the filter on , and then use a low turnover rate .
16 But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town .
17 The motor car is now the big demon of the left because , supposedly , it pollutes our atmosphere , but the fact is that it is the most treasured possession of many people — including working people — because it allows them to get around independently .
18 In 1580 , he allowed them to trade freely and repealed a restriction applying to furriers , but he still insisted that Jews wear the yellow star .
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