Example sentences of "[noun pl] enable them " in BNC.

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1 During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it .
2 The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry .
3 There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil .
4 The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights .
5 there is a serious side to community education and it is highly political in nature , that it should be directed towards equalising political power at local level , that communities should be learning skills to enable them to work with , and if necessary to confront local bureaucracy .
6 Effective Project Management — an intensive five-day residential course for executives needing professional management skills to enable them to meet their objectives successfully .
7 Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused .
8 It will explore how they make sense of their predicament , and how , and in what circumstances , they devise separate or joint coping strategies to enable them to survive .
9 One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams .
10 Starting from Oct. 1 , vouchers with a value of 10,000 roubles each would be issued to all Russians to enable them to buy shares in privatized state property .
11 It is able to move on to the next stage of the action if the various relevant conditions have been satisfied and to produce documentation for court or reminders for the debt recovery unit personnel to enable them to progress matters beyond the next stage .
12 We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur .
13 Once the information has been collected it should be reviewed by Newco 's solicitors to enable them to address any potential problem as quickly as possible .
14 It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy .
15 As time passes , conditions in parts of its range alter and some of its descendants evolve into slightly different forms enabling them to survive more efficiently in their new circumstances .
16 Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions .
17 Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions .
18 GPs will receive sufficient funds to enable them to provide full and proper treatment for their patients .
19 Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders .
20 The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line .
21 It is the document which can be viewed by our existing and prospective clients to enable them to gain an insight into our quality system .
22 How does the ability of genes to specify proteins enable them to control development ?
23 The legs are oleo-pneumatic ; small Schrader-type valves enable them to be kept to the correct pressure .
24 ‘ A system to convert data from internal and external sources into information and to communicate that information , in an appropriate form , to managers at all levels in all functions to enable them to make timely and effective decisions for planning , directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible . ’
25 Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting .
26 Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position :
27 It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management .
28 A special regime for international headquarters companies enabling them to pay foreign income dividends ( FIDs ) from foreign source income without paying ACT ‘ should bring benefits to the UK economy ’ , the Institute of Taxation said , but the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and wales said it was unlikely to attract many new companies .
29 Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements .
30 The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair .
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