Example sentences of "be allowed [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the controversial Clause 7 of the new act , 100 or more residents would be allowed to draft and enforce " norms and standards " of maintenance and density in their neighbourhood . |
| 2 | It would not be allowed to pick and choose for long . |
| 3 | The council has shown consistently that it is an accountable and efficient local authority that should be allowed to continue and develop its services , ’ added Mr Sanderson when he presented the council 's response to reorganisation . |
| 4 | Councils and housing associations will be allowed to lease or buy empty homes in order to provide accommodation for homeless people . |
| 5 | Next , the stout must be allowed to mature and condition . |
| 6 | There was no way she would ever be allowed to go and live alone . |
| 7 | However , to rule out the possibility and say that there are no circumstances under which management or employees will be allowed to diverge and put together rival bids to be considered on their merits is unacceptable and flies in the face of what the Government are supposed to espouse — competition . |
| 8 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 9 | When this system is in use it is intended that all members of the design team will be allowed to view and manipulate some of the filed data , but not necessarily all of it . |
| 10 | One principle has been rescued form the wreckage of socialism — the principle that local authorities should not be capped and should be allowed to spend and spend as though there were no tomorrow . |
| 11 | According to a report in The Independent last month , the Department of the Environment and the Foreign Office are proposing that only participants in military parades and religious marches will be allowed to chant and sing in the embassyland of Kensington and Belgravia . |
| 12 | Should the parties be allowed to examine and cross-examine witnesses ? |
| 13 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 14 | James , having pleaded to be allowed to land and take his chance , was , much against his will , whisked back to France , having merely glimpsed his intended kingdom through the mist and rain . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 16 | Like other companies we would not be allowed to buy or lease in our own right and so we would have to take on non-producing quota holders to encourage farmers who regularly lease quota themselves to join our supply pool , ’ said Mr Ross , whose aim is to secure some 15 per cent of Scottish milk production . |
| 17 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 18 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 19 | He must not be allowed to think that staying in bed would solve the physical problems of his hemiplegia , as the opposite would certainly happen : he would become lazy , weak , and his spasticity would become more entrenched and pronounced . |
| 20 | Dogs must never be allowed to attack or chase animals or birds . |
| 21 | The demands made by the rebels provide the clearest guide to their grievances , and according to the Anonimalle Chronicle those put forward by the Essex men at Mile End on 14 June were that they should be allowed to seize and punish traitors , and that no man should be made a serf nor do homage or any type of service to a lord in return for land ; instead they should hold it at a rent of 4d. an acre . |
| 22 | Industry should be allowed to fashion and to shape its own policies based on the needs of the employer group companies . |
| 23 | The 29-year-old complained bitterly about pin positions , said it was stupid that players shooting scores of ‘ 101 and 98 ’ should be allowed to compete and claimed a tournament allowing such poor players should not be a Ryder Cup points-counting event . |
| 24 | He would n't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table . |
| 25 | He 's a man who has crushed all softness in himself , so why should his son be indulged , be allowed to cry and display his grief , be stroked and cuddled and consoled when he never was ? |
| 26 | Many large companies are lobbying furiously to be allowed to build and operate bridges , roads and the like for profit under franchise . |
| 27 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |