Example sentences of "[noun] were allowed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a shame to cancel the celebrations : children in the Borough were allowed free riding on Coronation Day , which they used to full advantage ! |
| 2 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 3 | Spain , Greece , Ireland and Portugal were allowed to keep their controls until the end of 1992 . |
| 4 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 5 | Each school was asked to send a choir of 20 children and some schools were allowed to send an extra 20 people . |
| 6 | Instead of maintaining a fixed rate or parity against the dollar , other major currencies were allowed to float in the foreign exchange market . |
| 7 | Accordingly individual currencies were allowed to float since there was no other option , although the governments concerned ensured that it was a ‘ managed ’ rather than a free float . |
| 8 | When currencies were allowed to float , gold was no longer the ultimate numéraire in which exchange values were expressed ; indeed , discussions at the time accepted that the SDR ( based on the value of national currencies from 1974 ) would be the numéraire in any future return to an adjustable peg system . |
| 9 | Fortunately for the players , only accredited golfing journalists were allowed to encroach on the fairways and everyone else was kept firmly behind the ropes and barriers which ran along the perimeter of each hole . |
| 10 | Wednesdays was the only day ex-inmates were allowed to visit friends in prison . |
| 11 | She was sitting in a very old overstuffed leather sofa and hiding a notebook behind her large handbag because she was n't sure notebooks were allowed in the club ; not much was . |
| 12 | The easiest part of the scheme was the raising of the six companies of 70–110 men each , increased in 1739 to ten , and as a concession to national sentiment the new units were allowed to wear the kilt ; its dark tartan , of blue , green and black , soon gave them a distinctive name : the Black Watch . |
| 13 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 14 | Two years ago , traders were allowed to reclaim VAT on invoices which remained unpaid after 12 months . |
| 15 | The Nazi regime made a travesty of welfare and of youth policy and subjected every conceivable aspect to ideological purposes and to control by central government even where private organizations were allowed to continue operating . |
| 16 | Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year . |
| 17 | Foreigners were allowed 100 per cent ownership of enterprises and certain tax exemptions under a foreign investment law passed in 1990 , and by September 1991 43 joint enterprises had been set up . |
| 18 | If they wished , LEAs were allowed to set up nursery schools or classes for children below school age , and to provide physical and social educational facilities , such as school camps . |
| 19 | LEAs were allowed to open special classes or put these children into grammar schools . |
| 20 | In the first 11 months of 1989 a record 62,500 Jews were allowed to emigrate , including some long-term " refuseniks " . |
| 21 | ( Indeed , the anti-vivisectionists were allowed a small but notable coup on this score : Sue Crowshaw , badly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis , made a moving speech denying scientists the right to claim they were experimenting on her behalf . ) |
| 22 | The Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) has been in power since independence , the country being a de facto one-party regime until May 1990 , when opposition parties were allowed to function . |
| 23 | Other political parties were allowed to operate from May onwards , and 17 parties fielded candidates during the first multiparty general election in November [ pp. 37841-42 ] . |
| 24 | Its chairman , Hysni Milloshi , was arrested by the Tirana police on July 22 and charged with illegally carrying a gun , since only the chairmen of existing parties were allowed to do so . |
| 25 | Teenagers were allowed in the project as junior members of the regular rural work force . |
| 26 | Part of this confusion occurs because , particularly in early centuries , authors were allowed to visit the printers while their books were being run off and to make alterations . |
| 27 | What happened though did in in essentially basically dilute the vote and the spoiling tactics were allowed to happen . |
| 28 | No cars were allowed on the road beyond it today and volunteers were patrolling it to keep out gate-crashers . |
| 29 | It would be interesting to see how many big bream could be taken from Grafham if bait and bottom fishing were allowed . |
| 30 | In the neophobia test ( panel A ) the subjects were allowed access to the saline solution for 10 min . |