Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing . |
| 2 | The biblical story is thought to reflect the then recent development of caravan routes , made possible by the domestication of the camel at the end of the first millennium BC . |
| 3 | For the present , I would prefer to reformulate Popper 's position on observation statements in a less subjective way , thus : An observation statement is acceptable , tentatively , at a particular stage in the development of a science , if it is able to withstand all the tests made possible by the state of development of the science in question at that stage . |
| 4 | Addressing a rarely convened joint session of the Federal Legislature , made possible by the ending of a two-month opposition boycott in protest against the alleged intimidation of Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) members in Sind , Sharif said that the proposed legislation would consist of two bills , one to amend the Constitution and the other to make the Koran and Sunna ( the practices of the prophet Mohammad ) supreme law . |
| 5 | He spent six months in America working in and visiting nurseries and botanical gardens — a trip made possible by the award of the first Bowles Memorial Scholarship by the RHS . |
| 6 | They would maintain that systematic discrimination against blacks , made possible by the power of the dominant stratum , accounts for the system of racial stratification in the USA . |
| 7 | But operating margins widened from 6.6 p.c. to 7.1 p.c. as the group strove to raise efficiency through initiatives such as wastage reduction and automatic re-ordering , made possible by the growth of scanning at checkouts . |
| 8 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 9 | One of the most important advances , made possible by the move to bigger premises , was the use of reactive , instead of pigment , dyes . |
| 10 | Recorded music has now become a separate expressive form , thanks to a range of studio technologies deriving fundamentally from the ability to edit and amalgamate sounds , made possible by the use of magnetic tape . |
| 11 | This process is further aided by reductions in the costs of business and consumer services made possible by the liberalisation of the service sector . |
| 12 | As the chairman of British Telecom declared in 1982 , the traditional role of telecommunications in voice communication is being rapidly superseded by ‘ information exchange ’ made possible by the merger of computer and communications systems . |
| 13 | There are a vast number of potential meanings made possible by the volatility of language . |
| 14 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 15 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 16 | He was soon proved right , as the numbers of those listening to him in England equalled two-thirds of the audience for the BBC news . |
| 17 | Specimens should be planted as closely as possible two or three weeks before being taken on board and then kept on deck , covered in bad weather with a tarpaulin against salt spray , a precaution made unnecessary after the invention of the Wardian case . |
| 18 | It included a house in the tiny seaside village of Cramer , which clung low to the land in an attempt to avoid the rough seas and wild winds that buffeted the coast for what seemed to Nora most of the year . |
| 19 | Police think Christopher , 42 , of Birmingham , became depressed after the death of John , 53 . |
| 20 | I started my long walk , interspersed with running sessions to deliver the papers to Mr. Brooks , the Head Gardener at Godolphin School , who lived right at the bottom of Laverstock Road , a distance of almost a mile . |
| 21 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 22 | Ace pressed the remote-control button and the room became alive to the sound of highly tuned engines revving up . |
| 23 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
| 24 | Wilson left the application ‘ on the table ’ in Brussels , but it was only in late 1969 that progress became possible on the extension of the EC to new members . |
| 25 | A PART FROM a few dedicated individuals who preferred to do it the ‘ hard way ’ ( we 'll discuss that in a moment ) , the flying of a model helicopter upside down became possible with the introduction of the ‘ invert switch ’ . |
| 26 | England Colts led 14–10 at the interval through tries by wingers O'Leary and Smith and centre Keyter , one of which Burke converted . |
| 27 | She was pierced to the heart and made alive with the consciousness of passion , of love , of choice … |
| 28 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 29 | All the dinosaurs , vegetarian and carnivore alike , became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period ( see p. 135 ) . |
| 30 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |