Example sentences of "[noun pl] allow them " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 2 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 3 | For people with trouble controlling their hand movements , special key guards allow them to press only the key they want . |
| 4 | Their long legs allow them to stride through tall vegetation and shallow water to forage for a variety of animal and plant items . |
| 5 | ‘ And then Verity explained that these Daleks were so advanced in their technology , that their brains were so large and their bodies so atrophied , they needed the casings to allow them to move . |
| 6 | For a transitional period , industrial policy should include the option of erecting external barriers in some sectors to allow them to restructure and modernise . |
| 7 | I usually make a tape hood over the static vents to allow them to breathe without letting water droplets get into the tubes . |
| 8 | ‘ It tends to adjourn the case for six months to allow them to get themselves together again . ’ |
| 9 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 10 | Computer simulation provides project engineers with graphic descriptions of the principal elements of plant in action at factory sites allowing them to study manufacturing process operations in detail . |
| 11 | The fact that some policewomen carry out both sets of duties allows them to contrast the two types of community relations , with general community relations work being seen as ‘ fun ’ and juvenile liaison as more demanding and difficult . |
| 12 | In 1981 the brigade received a second hand fire engine from the local fire department and in 1989 public donations allowed them to buy a second reconditioned engine . |
| 13 | Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire . |
| 14 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 15 | As early as sixteen they asked their respective parents to allow them to marry but no blessings were forthcoming . |
| 16 | The variety of television news ( and current affairs ) programmes allowed them to choose the degree of depth and detail they wanted , but not the political viewpoints expressed . |
| 17 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 18 | The rules allowed them this 2:1 majority but in the fullness of time it would become unacceptable to members . |
| 19 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 20 | But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads . |
| 21 | Like our own hands , those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision . |
| 22 | Species co-existence levels in rain-forest mammals ( and reptiles ) are lower than in birds , whose locomotor abilities allow them access , at a low-energy cost , to food unavailable to species confined to terrestrial or arboreal substrates . |
| 23 | Two methods used by the smuggling firms are bribing local officials to allow them to dump waste in landfills and offering to build ( often low-quality ) incineration and energy-producing plants in destination countries in exchange for permission to burn their toxic waste there . |
| 24 | The written report will be checked by the participants to allow them to make any deletions necessary to protect the confidentiality of their research . |
| 25 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 26 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 27 | They went round the coasts as far as the Carthaginians allowed them to go . |
| 28 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |
| 29 | Before you can sign the translation contract , the publishers insist that you provide a sample translation of a couple of pages to allow them to assess your competence as a translator of this type of literature . |
| 30 | However , because of the potential for error if the wrong terms are used in a particular transaction , it is probably better to have only one set of terms , and draft in appropriate provisions to allow them to be used for both consumer and business transactions , unless the client can keep its consumer and other business wholly separate . |