Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's policy review made Labour an effective anti-Thatcherite force . |
| 2 | WORLD champion Evander Holyfield last night received a piece of simple advice from his trainer Lou Duva : ‘ Take a shotgun in with you against Lennox Lewis — hold it , let's make that a machine gun . |
| 3 | Now this one can you make that a er a more useful fraction ? |
| 4 | So , then all we have to do is make that a statement . |
| 5 | Removal of these recovery allowances made possible a general acceleration of East Coast 125mph services from May 1987 . |
| 6 | He compared the press to a scaffolding , surrounding a building under construction ( the worker 's state ) , which marked the outlines of the structure , facilitated communication among the builders , enhanced the effective assignment of tasks , and made possible a clear view of the achievements of the builders . |
| 7 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 8 | Here , too , of course , a misplaced word could result in a denunciation and draconian ‘ punishment ’ , but plainly the massive growth in the number of critics of the Party made possible a wide range of devastating comment . |
| 9 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 10 | This disclosure requirement , in turn , made possible a recommendation in June 1990 by the Innovation Advisory Board ( set up under the aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry ) that a ‘ UK R&D scoreboard by sectors and companies ’ should be drawn up . |
| 11 | The trading pre-eminence of the United Kingdom , the only European nation which in 1914 was selling more outside Europe than inside it , made possible a more flexible and roughly triangular system . |
| 12 | The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving . |
| 13 | This circumstance placed extra demands on the education service during the 1960s and 1970s and made possible a reduction in expenditure in the 1980s , in both cases without any change in the level of service provided ( Bailey 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Decisions were made by reaching a consensus embracing every level of the hierarchy ; this made possible a unanimous agreement among household heads . |
| 15 | Before ten minutes had passed he had rejected this in favour of a 50″ × 40″ canvas that made possible a full-length portrait ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 16 | The Emancipation of the serfs made possible a gradual but sustained acceleration in the rate of economic growth , the development of the internal market , the division of labour , the accumulation of capital , technological innovation and urbanization . |
| 17 | On the other hand Durkheim , a reformist socialist of sorts , was passionately opposed to violent revolution and agitation , and was concerned to identify and encourage the social consensus that made possible a peaceful social order for the benefit of everyone . |
| 18 | The ‘ intercom ’ of the Quartet 's title refers not only to technological developments in information-processing systems , but also to how these developments have affected intercourse between individuals in everyday situations , and how this has in turn made possible a new role in society for narrative fiction . |
| 19 | A statement by the Polish government said that the question of responsibility for the Katyn massacre had " weighed particularly painfully " on Polish-Soviet relations , and that the " long-awaited " Soviet admission made possible a relationship based on " partnership and true friendship " . |
| 20 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 21 | Between them the Italian and German aircraft made possible an air-ferry which during late July and early August bore the greater part of the Army of Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar to Seville . |
| 22 | In addition , on some manors , the liberal application of marl made possible an extension of the area under wheat . |
| 23 | This increase in water solubility made possible an in vitro incubation test with intraperitoneal pus or fluid from patients with peritonitis . |
| 24 | Do you want that a bit closer |
| 25 | The analyst had previously referred to their sessions as a ‘ voyage of inner discovery ’ : Fraser thinks that his tape-recordings make possible a ‘ voyage into the social past ’ . |
| 26 | The paper said the companies were discussing building an inexpensive computer derived from the three-dimensional Silicon Graphics R4000 64-bit RISC-based Iris machines used by movie studios to create special effects , which would attach to television sets and make possible a variety of interactive games and other applications . |
| 27 | Tectonic dips are negligible in this region and the winding escarpments , with many isolated " jebels " or hill outliers in between ( plate 6.1 ) make possible a detailed investigation of the lateral variations in this so-called formation , on a scale beyond our dreams in more vegetated temperate terrains . |
| 28 | The general regulation of economic and social life at the national level , and relations with other nation states , require a complex apparatus of government and administration , parties with broadly formulated aims and policies , and competition between parties ; but there is also a need for more direct and immediate means of political action , which would allow the effective expression of particular grievances and interests , counter some of the consequences of centralization and bureaucratic administration and make possible a more continuous practical participation by large numbers of citizens in determining the quality of their lives . |
| 29 | These degrees make possible a pattern of study uniquely adapted to an individual 's interests . |
| 30 | His theory and exhaustive descriptive model make possible a thorough account of the differences between verse styles ; such accounts up to now ( e.g. Fowler 1971 ) have been vague and partial . |