Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] allow [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Satellites and cellular telephones allow us to converse instantaneously from a London street to the Australian outback .
2 Its small size and durable design allows you to use it in many convenient locations .
3 Recent field studies of the extant great apes by Wrangham , MacKinnon , and Dian Fossey allow us to formulate new models of the relations between social organization and ecology of these species and to present them in terms of the reproductive and social strategies of individuals .
4 Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications .
5 Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour .
6 However , the ex-British Caribbean territories share enough of their social and linguistic history to allow us to call them , for some purposes , a single language community .
7 In short , the inertial properties of ideologies and institutional arrangements allow them to colour industrial relations long after the constellation of political forces has changed .
8 Thin sections of the first and third molars allowed him to demonstrate in roughly half the skeletons the residual lesions of sunlight deficiency rickets that had developed between infancy and age ten .
9 This simple and inexpensive technique allows us to take the pressure off enlarged extended families with limited fields and enables them to grow more without fertilizers or more land .
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