'V n to-inf' - Construction 28

Name: the entity enables something to happen construction
Description: A situation makes it possible for someone or something to do something.
Verbs: enable, free
Example: …flexible solutions which enable historians to encode whatever they will… (BNC)
Membership:
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Causation. Roles: NP1: Cause; NP2: Affected; to-inf clause: Result.
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