Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 32 | The 1921 accounts showed a surplus of £16 2s. 2d. , made possible by the bondholders again waiving their interest payments . |
| 33 | The Thirties scene shows the complete segregation of the tram track , made possible by the Promenade widening of 1905 , with a traditional double-deck Standard and a modern railcoach of the period . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | From Pius IX on , every pope became the centre of a considerable personality cult made possible by the railway and , later on , the modern media . |
| 39 | But so great was the gulf between the righteousness of God and the depravity of man that the hope of salvation , made possible by the obedient and sacrificial death of Christ , was ultimately dependent upon divine rather than human initiatives . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | One of the most important advances , made possible by the move to bigger premises , was the use of reactive , instead of pigment , dyes . |
| 45 | Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing . |
| 46 | It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples . |
| 47 | There are a vast number of potential meanings made possible by the volatility of language . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The World Bank extended to Iran its first loan since 1978 ( prior to the Iranian revolution ) on March 16 , a loan made possible by the US decision to remain neutral on the matter . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | As a supporter of balanced budgets , however , he insisted that this could be funded from defence cuts made possible by the " peace dividend " , rather than through deficits or higher taxes . |
| 52 | The Amnesty Human Rights Now Tour bore the banner ’ Made possible by the Reebok Foundation ’ . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | In these circumstances the increase in output made possible by the CU would lead to a reduction in the unit cost of production . |
| 55 | This process is further aided by reductions in the costs of business and consumer services made possible by the liberalisation of the service sector . |
| 56 | 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 ) . |
| 57 | Since , as Leech and Short ( 1981 ) point out , every writer ( and speaker ) necessarily makes choices of expression , there is , on this view , no neutral style.6 However , in contrast with Leech and Short ( 1981 : 19 – 24 , 38 ) , I do not have in mind simply those choices made from amongst the modes of expression made possible by the language . |
| 58 | Using SMED with the policies of ‘ Working Smarter not Harder ’ and ‘ Eliminating Waste , ’ the MIT launched itself into grade change-over time reduction with tremendous success . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | And what price do you place on the species made extinct in the rainforest ? |