Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement by the Polish government said that the question of responsibility for the Katyn massacre had " weighed particularly painfully " on Polish-Soviet relations , and that the " long-awaited " Soviet admission made possible a relationship based on " partnership and true friendship " . |
| 2 | This circumstance placed extra demands on the education service during the 1960s and 1970s and made possible a reduction in expenditure in the 1980s , in both cases without any change in the level of service provided ( Bailey 1982 ) . |
| 3 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 4 | This disclosure requirement , in turn , made possible a recommendation in June 1990 by the Innovation Advisory Board ( set up under the aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry ) that a ‘ UK R&D scoreboard by sectors and companies ’ should be drawn up . |
| 5 | Between them the Italian and German aircraft made possible an air-ferry which during late July and early August bore the greater part of the Army of Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar to Seville . |
| 6 | In addition , on some manors , the liberal application of marl made possible an extension of the area under wheat . |
| 7 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 8 | Chile 's previous period of democracy and the way that the labour movement had developed it independent , political base and strong organisational structure during that time , made possible the development of militant collective action on the part of the proletariat . |
| 9 | His father , Samuel Whitbread I , who died in 1796 , left a legacy which made possible the building of the Bedford Infirmary ( later to become South Wing ) a few years later . |
| 10 | The resulting wealth made possible the issue of splendid coinages ( K. Jenkins ( 1976 ) Coins of Greek Sicily , edn 2 , for illustrations ) : the coinage of Segesta copies some famous Syracusan types such as the river-nymph Arethusa , but also depicts the local goddess Segesta ( Arch . |
| 11 | More than anyone else , it was Macedo who made possible the realisation of his friend Chico Mendes 's dream — the Forest People 's Alliance . |
| 12 | The decision also made possible the publication of other Cabinet recollections , particularly by Barbara Castle and Tony Benn . |
| 13 | For example , the deregulation of brokers ' commissions on Wall Street in 1975 started a revolution in other financial capitals — the ‘ big bang ’ in London — and made possible the rise in international competition in sectors previously reserved for nationals . |
| 14 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 15 | Technology made possible the opening of geographically remote or inaccessible areas to export production , most notably the plains of the central United States and of south-eastern Russia . |
| 16 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 17 | The very centrality of the aristocracy and its culture in Vienna , however , made possible the restabilization of bürgerliche culture , partly through the integration of a substantial element of aestheticist aristocratic culture into the bourgeois habitus . |
| 18 | His physical departure made possible the coming of the Spirit as Paraclete and there would be no barriers of space and time to prevent disciples being in intimate contact with him . |
| 19 | Several groups have tried to locate the wreck in the past 20 years since technology made possible the recovery of its contents . |
| 20 | In addition to the influence of Solesmes Abbey , there was the scholarship of men such as Briggs , Frere , Palmer and Arnold , reflected in the publications of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage which made possible the recovery of plainsong for English congregations , parochial as well as religious . |
| 21 | The end of the war , and the politically liberal climate that existed during Carter 's presidency , made possible the appearance of the first Vietnam combat movies since The Green Berets . |
| 22 | But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor . |
| 23 | He made Rich a boneshaker which thundered down Caradoc Street . |
| 24 | Lynch moved the headquarters of boxing in Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow , and made practicable the use of football stadiums for open-air boxing shows . |
| 25 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 26 | Throughout these reconnaissances , therefore , the raiders went to extreme lengths — even possibly to self-destruction — to avoid being caught or their special gear falling into enemy hands , for its nature made clear the purpose of the visit . |
| 27 | Mr. Brittan 's statement of October 1983 made clear the division of the decision-making process into two parts , the ‘ tariff ’ period to meet the purposes of retribution and deterrence which the Secretary of State decides on the advice of the judges ; a review towards the end of that period by the local review committee ; and after the end of the tariff period , a possible further period , if the Secretary of State on the advice of the local review committee and the Parole Board decides that the prisoner 's continued detention is necessary because of the danger he might pose if released , and to maintain public confidence in the system . |
| 28 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 29 | 4 ] All of them made clear the extent to which poverty persisted even in households headed by a male working long hours , and when wives and children contributed to family income in all ways possible . |
| 30 | Gorbachev also made clear the reason why he advocated a position of this kind : it was to be found in the interconnection between foreign and domestic policy . |