Sentence examples for admits allowing from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "admits allowing" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of acknowledging permission or acceptance, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He admits allowing his friends to borrow his car, but he regrets it now."
Alternatives: "acknowledges permitting" or "confesses to allowing".

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(They're unsettled, too. "We probably shouldn't have built it," Finch admits, allowing that the Machine might be a "beautiful" but "terrible" invention).

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The scoreboard ticks over merrily when he is at the crease, which, as Cook freely admits, allows the England captain and others to go at their own natural, often more pedestrian pace without recourse to playing out of a comfort zone.

Daniel's mother, Emma Bradburn, 34, was also jailed for four years after she admitted allowing the child's death.

Rock star Pete Doherty was given a 12-month driving ban and fined £500 today after he admitted allowing his manager to use his Daimler without insurance.

Fox has admitted allowing him to stay in the spare room at his flat near London Bridge in 2002, and has stated that he neither requested or received any rent.

I know a few people who admitted allowing torture.

A landowner has admitted allowing his farm to become an illegal rubbish tip.

(We do that more often that any of us would admit: allowing our fantasy world to commandeer us like Harrison Ford's President in "Air Force One").  .

According to the parameter values of Figure 12, the only admitted allowed unstable mode is chosen as (hat{k}_{c}^{2}=1), which falls within the band of unstable modes allowed by the boundary conditions.

Roger Khafif, of The Trump Ocean Club, admits that allowing all the buildings to go up on Punta Pacifica before building the infrastructure to support them and the people who will some day fill them is a bit like putting the cart before the horse.

The head is dented, as Ken Walker, the marksman, admits, sheepishly allowing that, "at least you'll be alive to tell your friends about it".

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