Example sentences of "[noun] that enable [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is their good fortune to have the luxury of comment without the responsibility of action that enables them to appear more in tune with public feeling than the ideologists of either side of the political spectrum . |
| 2 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 3 | Alongside the development of poor law hospitals many voluntary hospitals , assisted by charitable funds that enabled them to provide cheap or free services to the poor , were founded or grew in strength from their earlier origins . |
| 4 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 5 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 6 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 7 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 8 | The function of fiduciary duties is to provide the courts with standards of review that enable them to guarantee that corporate managers do not act outside the limits of their special competence . |
| 9 | Far too many reclaimed sites , far from being well manicured , still present problems of their maintenance in a condition that enables them to be utilised and enjoyed . |
| 10 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 11 | Unit-trust managers are paid for the share-picking and dealing skills that enable them to do better than elderly aunts ( how much better is a question : supposedly index-tracking funds scored only from 88.4% to 93.2% over the period ) . |
| 12 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 13 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 14 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 15 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 16 | On the other hand , professionals must be trained in group leadership and team building skills , supervisory techniques appropriate for work with paraprofessionals , and methods of conceptualizing and organizing the helping function that enable it to be accomplished by the combined efforts of professionals and paraprofessionals . |
| 17 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 18 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 19 | There are , however , some simple rules that enable us to deduce the symmetry of a vibration from the band envelope of the corresponding IR or Raman band , even at rather limited resolution , where the 2B spacing of components of P and R branches , for instance , is not resolved . |
| 20 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 21 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 22 | Witnesses describe gremlins as looking like rabbits or bulldogs , sometimes wearing spats , top hat and breeches , and with long , webbed feet that enable them to move quietly . |
| 23 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 24 | Since he wanted people to pay him in cash , and to stimulate the transactions that enabled them to do so , it was in his interests to restore confidence in the currency . |
| 25 | It 's a special plan that enables you to avoid the long wait for medical treatment — but without the high costs of so many private health schemes . |
| 26 | The rest of the distant landscape provides a frame of reference that enables us to make fairly accurate judgments of their size . |
| 27 | Create beautiful results at the touch of a button : the New Home Memory Craft 8000 CE ( right ) is a computerised sewing machine that enables you to both sew and embroider |
| 28 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 29 | Ingrid believes it was fate that enabled her to work in Orkney , near her family , with her friends , and on an island she loves . |
| 30 | Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ? |