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The phrase "allow to be shown" is not correct in English as it lacks a subject and a clear object.
It can be used in contexts where permission is granted for something to be displayed, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "Please allow the results to be shown during the presentation."
Alternatives: "permit to be displayed" or "authorize to be revealed".
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(There is also one final film before the fact, made in 1982 and called "Visit, or Memories and Confessions," about a house where he used to live, which he will only allow to be shown after his death — "for prudish reasons," he said).
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Hicks was not allowed to be shown at all.
Graphic images are not allowed to be shown.
"The Goat Boy Rises," by John Lahr Elvis Presley was not allowed to be shown from the waist down on TV. Bill Hicks was not allowed to be shown at all.
Presley was not allowed to be shown from the waist down.
And anything not allowed in the system is not allowed to be shown in anything filmed there.
"Certainly his human side is showing in a way he's never allowed to be shown before.
Because of its unauthorized use of the Carpenters' music, "Superstar" has not been allowed to be shown since 1990.
With an eye toward future growth, American studios are trying to increase the number of their films that China allows to be shown.
Hollywood fervently wants to expand in China but faces a quota: only 20 non-Chinese films are allowed to be shown in local theaters each year.
"Perhaps in the minds of the Communist government, the reason it was allowed to be shown was that it was seen as a decadent American movie," Mr. Kaminski said.
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