Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there may have been a trade in illicit cattle across the border between the Dutch and Kandyan territories in the eighteenth century , the large-scale networks were probably a product of the early and middle nineteenth century , made possible by the increased demand for cattle for transportation and meat . |
| 2 | The even greater increase in the availability of textuality made possible by the digital revolution , combined with the facilities it allows for altering , merging , and adding to already written texts , presents a related but different set of problems to the novelist . |
| 3 | Traditional topics were omitted , supplanted by studies of the form and pattern of settlement , made possible by the great increase in their rate of discovery and excavation during the 1970s . |
| 4 | One is faced here with the blind spot of the dominant form of Irish nationalism , already so apparent in the preamble to the constitution itself , a blindness made possible by the ideological differentiation of state and religion combined with the ideological unity of the people , seen at once as both nation and catholic . |
| 5 | It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples . |
| 6 | The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) . |
| 7 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 8 | Eventually he became depressed by the sheer difficulty of his subject , by the realization that he was not , as he put it , going to be able to build a cathedral . |
| 9 | The youngest of a large family , who lived right in the book-printing district with Morrison & Gibb , Clark 's and Neill 's within walking distance , she had two elder sisters already in the trade . |
| 10 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 11 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 12 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 13 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 14 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 15 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 16 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 17 | There were few opportunities for attending concerts but passers-by became used to the familiar sound of Mozart 's " Jupiter " symphony or Handel 's water music floating from Eva 's house in the lunchtime break . |
| 18 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 19 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 20 | We got used to the lovely coffee and rolls for breakfast . |
| 21 | Shelley looked up at the orange moon , slung low behind the ornate roofs of the seaside town . |
| 22 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 23 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 24 | Across the road at Tullivers , Phyllida Prior and Jeremy soon became friendly with the older residents of Thrush Green . |
| 25 | Feeling themselves isolated from Ramsay MacDonald , who had been helped into Labour leadership by the " Clydesiders " , the ILP became receptive to the radical socialism of the Scottish MPs . |
| 26 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 27 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 28 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |
| 29 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 30 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |