Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb mod] allow [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 2 | They were not the sort of questions she could ask on so brief an acquaintance , but she was unable at present to think of an excuse that would allow her to get to know Veronica better . |
| 3 | But they dare n't take on the decisions and responsibility that would allow them to make their own alternatives , and to drop right out . |
| 4 | That may change and as we move out of the recession hopefully , er the er erm position will improve , but it does mean that for next year we are not in a position to er achieve the level of income that the , the current year 's budget er required us to and which er on a normal knock-on basis as this element of the budget moves on from year to year , we would n't er have very much hope I would er put to you of actually meeting the level of income that would allow us to operate er a standstill budget in , in this area . |
| 5 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt that by fracturing the well in conjunction with a gravel pack we could produce a ‘ highway ’ into the reservoir that would allow it to produce at peak efficiency , ’ says Hannah , a consulting production engineer . |
| 7 | In a historic test case his parents Allan and Barbara , along with Airedale Regional Health Authority , are seeking a change in the law that would allow them to disconnect the feeding tube and let Tony die . |
| 8 | In rationalising the corporation and giving it the equipment that would allow it to compete with rivals , particularly foreign rivals , I had to have a capital programme . |
| 9 | This suggest that if manufacturers spend on training , it is difficult for rivals to achieve the level of competitiveness that will allow them to poach workers or markets . |
| 10 | Given the inherent uncertainty of moral interpretation in social life , it would be foolish to believe that we could come up with a definition of aggression that would allow us to unambiguously classify , much less measure , instances of aggressive conduct in unfamiliar societies . |
| 11 | Well we discovered that there were some compounds in interstellar space that we were really rather more complicated than had previously been thought possible , and these molecules had infeasible prebiotic species , in that there were very simple reactions that could take place that would allow them to form amino acids and other rather intriguing biological molecules . |
| 12 | Tamayo said he would , but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality . |
| 13 | A rather unusual feature though , is a spring loaded padlock connection at the back that will allow you to fix the system to the desktop ! |
| 14 | These other features of the model have yet to be fully developed and experimental evidence that might allow us to evaluate them is sparse . |
| 15 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 16 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 17 | Chamoun then attempted to capitalise upon his victory by contemplating a change in the constitution that would allow him a second term as president . |
| 18 | A new style that will allow us to reach the year two thousand with a structure that is suitable for th a new century . |
| 19 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battle-worthy force . |
| 20 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battleworthy force . |
| 21 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battle-worthy force . |
| 22 | ( 1989 ) acknowledge the reality of these problems for their theory and present additional features of the connectionist model that might allow it to accommodate the findings . |
| 23 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 24 | It was Owen who took up the challenge of modernizing the argument from design in a way that would allow it to incorporate the innovative aspects of transcendental anatomy . |
| 25 | The company has set up focus groups to talk to large US PC users , but has n't yet hit on a magic formula that will allow it to get at users directly and in a cost effective way . |
| 26 | Robert Layton has spent five months preparing the British , French , Spanish and Portugese paperwork that will allow him to make two or three landings a day as he hops across Europe in a plane that can carry just ten gallons of fuel . |