Example sentences of "it [modal v] allow [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that further knowledge will improve treatment , but it may allow prevention of the disease , at least in a proportion of cases . |
| 2 | It may allow astronomers to observe distant objects that emit extreme ultraviolet light , a type of radiation which is usually absorbed by intervening neutral gas . |
| 3 | This wacky space-chick might not be everybody 's dream girl-who-fell-to-earth but at least it should allow Basinger to finally shake off the bruised sex-kitten image she 's been saddled with ever since Mickey Rourke emptied his weekly grocery shopping all over her body in the designer sex-romp 9/2 Weeks . |
| 4 | Covering artists from Byzantine times to the nineteenth century , it should allow scholars to establish underdrawing styles for individual painters . |
| 5 | It should allow access by different fields , so that , for example , a teacher should be able to inquire whether a particular item has arrived in the library by identifying the author or the title of the item or by giving the name of the teacher who recommended its acquisition for the school library . |
| 6 | If the new government — whoever heads it — wants to avoid an embarrassing , inflationary and recession-reinforcing rise in mortgage rates , it must allow societies to turn increasingly to the international money markets . |
| 7 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 8 | Timeliness and attention to detail on the remaining cropping can be improved and it could allow machinery replacements to be delayed . |
| 9 | Although Simmons indicates that such an approach may encompass only part of the traditions of study in geography , it would allow man 's impact on individual taxa and ecosystems , on biotic resources their conservation and protection ( Simmons , 1980 , p. 148 ) |
| 10 | It would allow contingency plans to be made to protect the public and it would apply just as much to a series of one-day strikes as a set-piece conflict . |
| 11 | Done properly , it would allow governments to take control of the distribution and quality of these substances away from criminals . |
| 12 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 13 | The mark also edged higher against the dollar after the Bundesbank announced it would allow market forces to set the rate for the weekly cash injection today , signalling a potential rise in the ‘ repo ’ rate . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a real chance that if the banks really push the price high , public spending becomes such that it would allow Mr John MacGregor , the education secretary , to reopen the whole argument . ’ |
| 15 | It would allow patients to receive almost every type of healthcare from beauty treatment to fullscale surgery . |
| 16 | Last month another group of rebels , the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front , promised to be equally generous with the port of Massawa : it said it would allow food to be moved from there to the government-held town of Asmara . |
| 17 | It would allow McAllister to run the midfield from a more central position and give the team a more balanced look . |
| 18 | He claimed it would allow Heseltine to avoid mentioning that Britain was lagging behind Europe in curbing carbon emissions in the run up to the general election . |
| 19 | Will not the control of inflation continue to be the cornerstone of industrial policy , because it will allow Britain to become more competitive in world markets ? |
| 20 | It will allow doctors to perform twice as many operations as they have done in the past . |
| 21 | Packaged in two configurations and one upgrade option , it will allow users to choose between feature sets . |
| 22 | It will allow users to attend events at the Barbican Centre . |
| 23 | Specifically , it will allow chemists , particularly those from developing countries , to carry out short term studies in well-established scientific centres abroad and to learn and use techniques not accessible to them in their own country . |
| 24 | The two claim it will allow developers to reverse- and forward-engineer C code without having to manually update information in each environment . |
| 25 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 26 | ‘ It is , of course , a matter of discretion for the House of Lords how far , if at all , it will allow points other than that certified to be developed … ’ . |
| 27 | It will allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — already the focus of a heated debate between environmentalists and developers — and drilling along California 's coast . |
| 28 | If the court finds the time limit unreasonable but the limitation on damages reasonable , it can allow reliance on the latter part of the clause only . |
| 29 | In Germany , the Bundespost Telekom 's argument is that it has to complete the reconstruction of eastern Germany 's telecommunications infrastructure before it can allow competition , Vallance said . |