Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] allow [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ample private income allowed him time to indulge his tastes for writing , politics , and rowing . |
| 2 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
| 3 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |
| 4 | How did you manage to persuade British Rail to allow you on to the train so you could drag me off ? ’ |
| 5 | She 's written to her M P , Andrew Smith , and at the start of this year , British Rail allowed her into the buffet car . |
| 6 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Kirkwood predicted : ‘ It will either get adequate support to allow it to make progress , or it will be unable to continue , and that would be disastrous for companies like Orde . ’ |
| 8 | Australia 's generous rules allow him to revalue intangible assets like newspaper mastheads , without saying specifically how much each asset is worth . |
| 9 | Once you are over 60 , the Inland Revenue allows you to invest up to 40 per cent of your earnings tax free into a pension plan . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Historical circumstances allow us to trace the change from archaic to classical most clearly in Athens , but other cities — Argos , Sicyon , Aegina — figure largely in the literary sources for this period , especially for their artists in bronze , and it is likely that these were prominent in the revolution . |
| 12 | Blind off the sub-base with a layer of coarse sand allowing it to fill the remaining holes . |
| 13 | In 1981 the brigade received a second hand fire engine from the local fire department and in 1989 public donations allowed them to buy a second reconditioned engine . |
| 14 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 15 | Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to intervene ? |
| 16 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 17 | They will build special buses with a pneumatic suspension allowing them to be lowered to the ground for the easy loading of wheelchairs . |
| 18 | Free will allows you to choose which road to take in life . |
| 19 | In this case , it is not essential to be right at the committee boat , but having clear air to allow you to carry on , for some distance , without tacking is vital . |
| 20 | Experiments in referential communication allow us to study , outside the classroom , ways in which children learn to recognize communication failure and discover how to overcome it . |
| 21 | The appropriate forms of request for summons are N201 and N202 ; separate particulars of claim may be dispensed with if form N202 is used and the proper officer allows it ( Ord 6 , r 1(2) ) . |
| 22 | The menu driven screen allows you to setup a copy session in seconds . |
| 23 | With its interest in cultural representation , the stories people tell about themselves , New Historicism is concerned to explore not only how the Renaissance fashioned itself , but how our present cultural categories allow us both to write and to understand culture . |
| 24 | The Scottish Office allowed them an additional borrowing consent of £750,000 and £370,000 came from their existing financial resources . |
| 25 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 26 | You may start from any point and get on and off at any of the central moorings allowing you time to visit museums and shopping areas as you wish . |
| 27 | It should be noted that ( a ) where the accused 's behaviour falls within s.2(1) , Ghosh is irrelevant : Wootton , above ; ( b ) that the accused may act dishonestly even though he did something which the civil law allows him to do , such as retain the overpayment of a bet ( Gilks [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1341 ) ; and ( c ) that as a result of Lawrence v DPP , above , a person may be dishonest despite the fact that the owner has consented to the appropriation . |
| 28 | The warm sun allowed us to eat outside every day , while chilly evenings were spent in front of a log fire in our villa . |
| 29 | She played with the choices during the remaining days allowed her , knowing in her heart that she would be forced to take the safe path into the civil service . |
| 30 | The complete list taken from those early writers allows us to see that the low vowel appeared in environments where it would not appear now — for example , before voiceless fricatives and voiced stops . |