Example sentences of "[noun pl] to enable them " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 2 | The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry . |
| 3 | There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights . |
| 5 | there is a serious side to community education and it is highly political in nature , that it should be directed towards equalising political power at local level , that communities should be learning skills to enable them to work with , and if necessary to confront local bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Effective Project Management — an intensive five-day residential course for executives needing professional management skills to enable them to meet their objectives successfully . |
| 7 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 8 | It will explore how they make sense of their predicament , and how , and in what circumstances , they devise separate or joint coping strategies to enable them to survive . |
| 9 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 10 | Starting from Oct. 1 , vouchers with a value of 10,000 roubles each would be issued to all Russians to enable them to buy shares in privatized state property . |
| 11 | It is able to move on to the next stage of the action if the various relevant conditions have been satisfied and to produce documentation for court or reminders for the debt recovery unit personnel to enable them to progress matters beyond the next stage . |
| 12 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 13 | Once the information has been collected it should be reviewed by Newco 's solicitors to enable them to address any potential problem as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |
| 15 | Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions . |
| 16 | GPs will receive sufficient funds to enable them to provide full and proper treatment for their patients . |
| 17 | Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders . |
| 18 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 19 | It is the document which can be viewed by our existing and prospective clients to enable them to gain an insight into our quality system . |
| 20 | ‘ A system to convert data from internal and external sources into information and to communicate that information , in an appropriate form , to managers at all levels in all functions to enable them to make timely and effective decisions for planning , directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible . ’ |
| 21 | Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting . |
| 22 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 23 | It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management . |
| 24 | It draws on the Children Act guidance on family replacements , where section 9.5.3 states : ‘ Gay young men and women may require very sympathetic carers to enable them to accept their sexuality and to develop their own self esteem . ’ |
| 25 | This figure is reminiscent of the Palaeolithic hunters of Western Europe , who dressed in untreated animal skins and wore antlers to enable them to approach the animals they were hunting ( see p. 131 and fig. 14.13 ) . |
| 26 | By the allocation of resources is meant the kinds and quantities of goods produced , the production methods used and the distribution of income to individuals to enable them to consume output . |
| 27 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 29 | However , recently they can be issued for maturities for as little as 7 days to enable them to compete with the sterling commercial paper market . |
| 30 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |