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 . |