Example sentences of "enable [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd 's Register , which carries out structural surveys of ships to enable them to be insured , believes that structural failure was to blame for many of the losses and is mounting an urgent investigation to establish whether this is the case . |
| 2 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
| 3 | Half-pay was to be granted to disbanded officers , to enable them to be recalled if necessary . |
| 4 | It goes without saying that the strap loops must be large enough to enable them to be cast off the hands quickly in any emergency . |
| 5 | A number of detailed technical changes are also proposed , including those necessary to adapt the 1989/1992 reforms of life assurance taxation to enable them to be applied more easily to the UK branches of foreign life offices . |
| 6 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 7 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 8 | Most had to be ploughed flat every spring to enable them to be used at all . |
| 9 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 10 | When planning internal verification , centres must bear in mind that staff carrying out the role must have the experience and background to enable them to be effective . |
| 11 | Some of the larger firms of surveyors produce property indices , but the statistical sample is probably too small to enable them to be reliable . |
| 12 | I 'm all in favour of early retirement , but actually acknowledging then , the people who retire , have that contribution , and I think we ought to be developing a way of our society to ensure that they 're able to live reasonably comfortably , and so that the pension should actually be a living wage , to enable them to be free , to make those sort of contributions . |
| 13 | The breakthrough follows research into so-called neural networks , in which ordinary computers are instructed to behave like the human brain , enabling them to be ‘ taught ’ to solve problems , rather than be laboriously programmed . |
| 14 | The forces of repulsion keep the particles buoyant , in suspension , enabling them to be rinsed away so completing the cleaning process . |
| 15 | Virus particles placed in the beam of electrons cast shadows which could then be photographed enabling them to be seen . |
| 16 | So gradually a fuller understanding of the actions of the remedies is obtained enabling them to be used with greater accuracy . |
| 17 | Each molecule has its own distinctive wavelength , enabling them to be identified . |
| 18 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 19 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 20 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 21 | The ‘ Essex ’ flanges are specially constructed in sections , plus two rubber jointing washers , enabling them to be inserted and fixed from outside the cylinder . |
| 22 | The point of the approach is to apply an attitude of critical affirmation to the different traditions enabling them to be studied and discussed in a way which is affirming of members of the traditions without succumbing to naivety or blandness . |
| 23 | The ducks are then frightened into flying down the pipe which narrows at the end , enabling them to be caught . |
| 24 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 25 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 26 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 27 | It is God as Spirit who brings us the intimate presence of God to us , enabling us to be friends of God . |
| 28 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 29 | Others such as George Cadbury , who initiated Bournville Village in 1897 , and Joseph Rowntree who started New Earswick Village , York , in 1904 , experimented in creating model communities of houses built at prices which would enable them to be let at rents within the reach of working-class incomes . |
| 30 | This can enable them to be ‘ fast-tracked ’ through the system reducing their waiting time and enabling the medical staff to be directed to the more seriously ill . |