Example sentences of "[noun pl] that enable [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 5 | Unit-trust managers are paid for the share-picking and dealing skills that enable them to do better than elderly aunts ( how much better is a question : supposedly index-tracking funds scored only from 88.4% to 93.2% over the period ) . |
| 6 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 12 | Since he wanted people to pay him in cash , and to stimulate the transactions that enabled them to do so , it was in his interests to restore confidence in the currency . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Natural selection will therefore favour adaptations in males that enable them to mate with more females ; but it will favour discrimination in females , if males vary in their quality as mates . |
| 16 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and , |
| 19 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 20 | And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world — in seconds . |
| 21 | Informed by critiques of the insufficiency of both the concept of ‘ the political ’ and hence , the orthodox measures by which political activities are estimated , the investigators have devised research techniques that enable them to explore the multi-faceted nature of political participation . |
| 22 | She has been compelled by her ancestry to leave the sea and come to these beaches to breed , for seals are descended from land-living mammals and although their limbs have become efficient paddles and their bodies are streamlined for swimming , unlike whales and dolphins they have not yet evolved techniques that enable them to give birth at sea . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he intends to take to ensure that British firms are able to obtain political risk insurance with speed and on terms that enable them to compete on equal terms with their international competitors . |
| 24 | Various other adjustments that enable you to configure the program to suit your own particular needs can also be made in this section . |
| 25 | ( 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 ) . |
| 26 | However , more than half of DSD 's members have not paid them the fees that enable them to use the green dot and the company , with a deficit expected to reach DM800 million by the end of the year , is on the verge of bankruptcy . |
| 27 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 28 | These usually run sponsorship schemes that enable you to contribute to the cost of the up keep of the pony of your choice . |