Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The safety lamp killed , like iron rail , flat ropes and cages , not by reducing safety , which it clearly did n't , but by making it possible to expose vastly increased numbers of miners to that deadly mixture , geology and profit-hungry entrepreneurs . |
| 2 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 3 | Nowadays , we are well used to this switching back and forth , and cutaways are used not only to hide jump-cuts but also to telescope time by making it possible to remove uninteresting parts of lengthy actions . |
| 4 | A new GetBulk PDU facilitates the retrieval of large amounts of data , such as tables , by making it possible to bundle a series of GetNext requests into a single request-response operation , improving performance . |
| 5 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 6 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |