verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution allows sth
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The Constitution allows police to seize property used in a crime.
a loophole allows/enables sth
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Security loopholes allowed the terrorists to plant the bombs unnoticed.
allow a maximum
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To lose weight, allow yourself only 1,500 calories per day.
allow (sb) entry ( also grant (sb) entry formal ) (= let someone enter a place )
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Citizens of most EU countries are allowed automatic entry into Britain.
legislation allows sth
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It was a huge change when Russia passed legislation to allow the sale of private property.
uphold/allow an appeal (= give permission for a decision to be changed )
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Judge Gabriel Hutton upheld Smith's appeal against a £250 fine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The closures will also allow £483,000 extra to be spent on the region's remaining ten centres.
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Congress also allows the Department of Transportation to reference additional but unauthorized amounts in full-funding agreements.
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However, as noted above, the scheme also allows for two kinds of heterogeneity.
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It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
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This extra width would also allow for right hand turning lanes to be incorporated at the junctions on to adjacent military land.
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It also allows employees to offer testimonials on which products and services are good, Phillips said.
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They also allowed a reconsideration of the duke's earlier endowment, some of which was surrendered.
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Each individual in a household is also allowed a personal exemption of $ 2000.
never
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She would never allow him a reason to pity her again, to hold her in contempt.
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Despite his feelings of insecurity, Joe never allowed himself to be intimidated by the other children.
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After the Ken Noakes episode in her life, she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her.
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Control the circumstances, never allow circumstances to control you.
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We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings.
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My parents never allowed me to go anywhere.
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But his message was lost on a people enjoying an economic and political freedom that he had never allowed them.
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However the planners never allowed it to open and the building is set to be demolished within the next few weeks.
■ NOUN
access
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With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
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Companies should allow reasonable access to documents and information.
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Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres.
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The project could include a pedestrian bridge over Valley Parkway that would allow easy access to the arts center and City Hall.
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This allows Quatro Pro to access directly data from third-party databases.
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The extra plants at the surface allow her access to the top of the water to take air.
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We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
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It was among the last countries in the region to allow access to the Internet.
appeal
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I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal .
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The High Court allowed the taxpayer's appeal and the Crown was given leave to appeal.
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To that extent I would allow these appeals .
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Accordingly, I allow the appeal and set aside the order.
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Held, allowing the appeal , but ordering a retrial.
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I agree with it and, for the reasons given him, I, too, would allow the appeal .
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For these reasons I would allow these appeals .
law
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Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
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Credit unions are by law not allowed to charge more than 12.6 percent interest on loans to their members.
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Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
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The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months' civilian service.
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Arizona law allows rattlesnake hunters to catch a maximum of four snakes per day in each of the four major varieties.
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Algebraic laws alone only allow us to prove one occam program equal to another.
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However, Clinton has disregarded the debt ceiling law , allowing the nation to spiral further into debt.
system
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The government ration card system allows an urban family to buy a case of imported beer for about 400 Kwanza.
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Louis County Police developed a system that allows officers to call in their reports, rather than write them up.
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There should be a system allowing users to backtrack over previous links.
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The move follows complaints from television companies about the delay caused by the present system that allows three false starts.
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The state is passive in the productive system , allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.
■ VERB
refuse
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The manager was refusing to allow the Committee to use the hall for nothing.
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The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
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Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.
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The same kind of yelping small-mindedness was shown when Thatcher refused to allow Roy Jenkins to take part in the Cenotaph service.
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Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
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Say that if he refused to allow us to marry you would even run away with me?
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In fact, a federal bankruptcy court in 1994 refused to allow asbestos claims to go forward against Jim Walter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our apartment complex does not allow pets.
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Paul's bank now allows him £35 a week, and Geoff can withdraw no more than £40.
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The manager doesn't allow children in the bar.
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Under federal law, Indian nations are allowed to operate casinos on their reservations, with the state's permission.
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We do not allow eating in the classrooms.
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We do not allow people to smoke anywhere in the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least one of the new filter starting bacteria mixes claims to allow you to start your tank fully stocked.
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He knows the Treasury does not allow departments to earmark tax revenues.
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He spent more than ten days in the neurology unit at Glasgow's Southern General before being allowed home.
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Most colleges will allow students to change their subject choices in the early weeks of an academic session.
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She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
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We allow visitor play on Tuesdays and Thursdays.