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The phrase "allow to keep alive" is not correct in English as it lacks a subject and an object.
It can be used in contexts where permission is granted to maintain something in existence, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The doctor decided to allow the family to keep alive their hopes for a recovery."
Alternatives: "permit to sustain" or "authorize to maintain".
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Increasing the level of arabinose up to 0.01% results in an overexpression of the protein well above its normal physiological level (Fig. 1B), but allows to keep bacteria alive.
We're allowed to keep both twins alive until we've filmed the episode, so we can use each one on camera.
Animals were included into a therapy group when showing signs of joint inflammation with a score of 1 to 3. When the joint inflammation was too strong at day 1 (more than one paw, score >3) mice were not included into the experiment, because according to our project license (208/2010) we are not allowed to keep a mouse alive with a conventional arthritic score ≥4 for more than 4 days.
For Barnes & Noble, it was a tremendous boon, allowing it to keep alive, in however attenuated a form, the old-fashioned idea of the bookstore.
The structure of the Red & White deal allows Dein to keep alive his hope of returning to the Arsenal board, from which he was ousted in April after Kroenke's purchase of a significant shareholding in the club.
In a tight contest that remained scoreless until the second half Chiefs again failed to take crucial opportunities and allowed Gloucester to keep alive their own faint hopes of European qualification next season.
But in truth, all the courts have allowed her to keep alive is the illusion of life.
In a speech aimed at overcoming opposition to his new plan for NASA, President Barack Obama this afternoon announced an apparent compromise that would allow the agency to keep alive a few elements of the Constellation program.
WASHINGTON — The decision by Senate Democratic leaders last week to devote more time to winning Republican support for a health care overhaul has allowed President Obama to keep alive the possibility of bipartisanship on one of the most contentious issues on his agenda.
If methanogens are responsible, Price calculated that they would occur in a concentration of about one microbe per cubic centimeter at a depth of several hundred meters, where the temperature - about zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) or a bit warmer - would allow just enough metabolism for them to keep alive, just as the microbes in the Greenland ice sheet are doing.
Cells are hard to keep alive".
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