Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that enable [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 8 | They may also lose the generous donations from the European Community that enable them to pay what they owe abroad . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 13 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 14 | The point , is that the existence is presupposed of an objective order that enables us to distinguish meaningfully between " x is greater than y and " A judges ( thinks , believes , surmises , etc. ) that is greater than y " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was just such foolhardy behaviour that enabled me continually to miss the summit of Creag Meagaidh . |
| 17 | There are four interacting systems within the organism 's black box that enable it to function effectively . |
| 18 | Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ? |
| 19 | ( 1987 ) in their efforts to provide training that would maximize the effectiveness of indigenous paraprofessional social service workers was that such training should specifically seek to strengthen those very attributes that enable them to maintain contact with and work effectively in their own communities ( p. 15 ) . |
| 20 | And it has a full PCL 3 interpreter that enables it to emulate Epson FX850 or IBM PP4207 printers . |
| 21 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 22 | That heart is Welsh , and it is his Welshness which gave him an inner security that enabled him to come this far . |
| 23 | Nowadays , it 's probably the only profession that enables you to spend time close to birds of prey and watch them in action . |
| 24 | To take a fairly dramatic example , honey-bees are capable of extremely sophisticated mathematical computations that enable them to navigate from their hives to sources of nectar , using the sun 's position as a guide and compensating for its movement during the course of the day . |
| 25 | Presupposition can be any knowledge that enables us " to understand what is said properly and fully " ( p. 84 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These attract a small moth with a specially curved proboscis that enables it to gather pollen from the yucca stamens . |
| 28 | Various other adjustments that enable you to configure the program to suit your own particular needs can also be made in this section . |
| 29 | Within a month of the testimonial luncheon of 29 May 1911 which concluded his Congo activities , the Agadir crisis gave Morel a new cause that enabled him to develop his opposition to British and French policy . |
| 30 | 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 . |