Example sentences of "[noun] by allow " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democrats had changed the rules for their 1992 contest by allowing candidates to share the delegates sent to the nominating convention by each state in proportion their support , subject only to their exceeding a 15 per cent threshold . |
| 2 | Press criticism inspired by certain currents within the FLN meanwhile accused the government of having played " Russian roulette " with the country 's future by allowing the elections to take place at a time when an Islamist win likely . |
| 3 | Air France gained many improvements to their airline training programme by allowing them to : significantly reduce the duration of the training cycle , reduce the time between hiring the pilot and the point at which he is qualified for jet operations by at least one year , reduce type conversion hours by at least 10% , and make an improvement in the selection of pilots by providing a better assessment of trainee ability for heavy or medium jet aircraft . |
| 4 | The government attempted to dispel confusion by allowing from April 6 a certificate of language proficiency to be presented up to nine months after applying for citizenship . |
| 5 | Initially , an attempt was made to fill the labour shortages by allowing over 100,000 Poles to stay on in Britain and by encouraging immigration from other European countries , but soon it was felt necessary to look to other sources of cheap labour , and immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent was encouraged . |
| 6 | We will encourage parents on income support to claim maintenance by allowing them to keep part of it before benefit is cut . |
| 7 | The adoption of a particular recipe therefore avoids any ambiguity and uncertainty by allowing a situation to be typified so that the appropriate behaviour is known . |
| 8 | Sue 's hair was wound onto rollers using the directional technique , following the contours of her head and giving a more natural result by allowing the hair to fall naturally into place . |
| 9 | The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other . |
| 10 | On February 3rd he had tried to relax the tension by allowing a pro-Iraqi demonstration by the opposition , including the Islamic movement . |
| 11 | Stereoscopic images can be produced from such oblique views , thus improving the information content of the images by allowing terrain elevations to be derived directly from the remotely-sensed images . |
| 12 | They have created an experimental salt marsh by allowing coastal farmland at Northey Island in Essex to be flooded . |
| 13 | The Government could not risk the pound by allowing the return on mark ( and franc ) assets to rise relative to the return on sterling assets . |
| 14 | A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access . |
| 15 | Under his successors , it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption . |
| 16 | However , we differ from this work by allowing wages to be determined endogenously , as will be made clear in Section 4 . |
| 17 | Other absentees at the trial were local government officials who contravened Italian law by allowing the plant to vent directly to the outside world and others who took 16 days to evacuate Seveso . |
| 18 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 19 | The unions have attempted to accommodate work group aspirations by allowing local unions a greater say in employment practices and — via legislation — expanding the role and powers of shop stewards , including the right of safety stewards to order a work stoppage in certain circumstances ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | The unions have attempted to accommodate work group aspirations by allowing local unions a greater say in employment practices and — via legislation — expanding the role and powers of shop stewards , including the right of safety stewards to order a work stoppage in certain circumstances ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | He urged the Government to recognise the danger of fuelling unemployment and undermining the economy in Scotland by allowing massive job cuts to take place in the public sector . |
| 22 | Raising the bar , argues UI 's Dave Sandell , will relegate the GUI issue by allowing firms to use the interface specifications to ensure desktop compatibility , leaving them free ‘ to compete on implementation , not on application programming interfaces ( APIs ) . ’ |
| 23 | The projects will include experiments with : ( i ) buses powered by alternative fuels such as natural gas and rape methyl ester ( RME , derived from rapeseed oil ) ; ( ii ) electronic systems for tracking buses to inform people when a bus is expected to arrive at their stop ; and ( iii ) control systems for traffic lights to ease congestion by allowing buses priority . |
| 24 | They argue that Mrs Aquino can heal old wounds by allowing the former dictator to come home , at the same time disarming his supporters who scream that he is being done an injustice . |
| 25 | The data structure chosen makes HERMS applicable to many applications by allowing information to be extracted in many different ways . |
| 26 | Away with those laborious command lines at the DOS prompt , Menuworks simplifies file management and maintenance of the hard disk by allowing the user to edit , delete , move , update and search for files quickly with simple function key commands . |
| 27 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 28 | Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion . |
| 29 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |
| 30 | The discount houses provide an important service to the banks by allowing them to hold extremely liquid assets ( money at call ) which nevertheless earn interest . |