Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] possible " in BNC.

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1 Quite apart from the availability of incidence information , a longitudinal study makes it possible to see if certain events regularly precede others , e.g. ‘ Do people with a certain laboratory report consistently develop liver disease ? ’
2 The provision of multiple points of entry makes it possible to react to market forces especially in the areas of retraining , returning to science , and widening access to Higher Education .
3 The microprocessor makes it possible to pick out ore-bearing rocks fast enough for 64 separate air jets to deflect them .
4 We consider that this PABA-UDCA disulphate incubation test makes it possible to express the severity of bacterial peritonitis quantitatively within 90 minutes .
5 The Act makes it possible for the properties to be transferred from the local authorities to housing associations , tenant co-operatives , or private landlords .
6 It has already been noted that interactions between infant and adult lead to the development of pre-verbal communicative exchanges in which adult and child are able to refer to objects and events ; successful joint reference makes it possible for these external objects and events to become ‘ topics ’ for further exchanges .
7 Hindsight makes it possible to distinguish ideal from reality , illusion from conceivable outcome .
8 The warm spring climate makes it possible to produce early market garden crops before those in other parts of Britain .
9 On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid .
10 As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles .
11 The reason why communication is achieved here by lexical means only is of course because the context of shared knowledge makes it possible to use minimal cues .
12 Knowledge of the addressor in a given communicative event makes it possible for the analyst to imagine what that particular person is likely to say .
13 Advance planning makes it possible to write the essay in sections and put the sections together only at the end — with the result that you do not have to write the sections in the order in which they will finally appear .
14 Genetic engineering makes it possible to join the promoter of one gene to that of another .
15 Genetic engineering makes it possible to cut and splice DNA .
16 This snapshot of the corporate environment makes it possible to analyse the way in which such organisations approach the management of information resources .
17 By creating favourable situations and environments in this way , the physiotherapist makes it possible for the patient to move actively and specifically without effort .
18 This sectoral approach makes it possible to take into account the redistribution of IT production activities between firms that may cut across existing industrial categories ( eg between manufacture and scientific services ) and its human resource implications .
19 Unfortunately , the very low variability in ratings on this scale makes it possible that the task was not successful in measuring this .
20 However , their multiple condensation at the level of the state makes it possible to speak , not just of a set of regional problems but of a general crisis of hegemony .
21 The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed .
22 This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams .
23 But this growth makes it possible to obtain an additional supply of goods .
24 A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted .
25 That feature makes it possible to develop an object-oriented program that has learning capabilities .
26 The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation .
27 This classification makes it possible , for instance , for the analyst to use individual customer lists and market research survey data to identify the types of neighbourhood with the heaviest consumption of a particular product or service .
28 Retroactive notation makes it possible to indicate distinct facets without recourse to mixed notation .
29 As Ruth Aplin , teacher of a class in the final year at Fox Primary , one of the feeder schools to Holland Park , put it , the scheme makes it possible for a class to tackle far more ambitious and varied projects .
30 The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate .
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