Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage . |
| 2 | When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up . |
| 3 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 4 | He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper . |
| 5 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 6 | Eventually , when they were in Canada , in the fifth month of the picture , Dustin got friendly with an Oriental man who claimed to be 104 years old . |
| 7 | This is encouraged and made possible through an international network . |
| 8 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 9 | Proper regulation of banks , together with the generally lower interest rates made possible by a stable currency , also reduced worries about the property market . |
| 10 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 11 | Attachment may be the result of friction , locking soil into irregularities in the surface or electrostatic attraction where soil and surface have opposite charges , or from chemical interaction between soil and surface made possible by a change of state of both at the interface . |
| 12 | It is a stunning image made possible by a freak set of weather conditions . |
| 13 | Thus , in the UK power is concentrated in the cabinet , a situation made possible by a weak legislature and strong political parties . |
| 14 | The major achievement of a meeting in Moscow on March 13 of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) was the agreement on repayment of the foreign debt of the former Soviet Union , made possible by a Ukrainian change of policy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 18 | The 1921 accounts showed a surplus of £16 2s. 2d. , made possible by the bondholders again waiving their interest payments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One of the most important advances , made possible by the move to bigger premises , was the use of reactive , instead of pigment , dyes . |