Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 2 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 3 | The ‘ intercom ’ of the Quartet 's title refers not only to technological developments in information-processing systems , but also to how these developments have affected intercourse between individuals in everyday situations , and how this has in turn made possible a new role in society for narrative fiction . |
| 4 | Removal of these recovery allowances made possible a general acceleration of East Coast 125mph services from May 1987 . |
| 5 | Here , too , of course , a misplaced word could result in a denunciation and draconian ‘ punishment ’ , but plainly the massive growth in the number of critics of the Party made possible a wide range of devastating comment . |
| 6 | Before ten minutes had passed he had rejected this in favour of a 50″ × 40″ canvas that made possible a full-length portrait ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 7 | He compared the press to a scaffolding , surrounding a building under construction ( the worker 's state ) , which marked the outlines of the structure , facilitated communication among the builders , enhanced the effective assignment of tasks , and made possible a clear view of the achievements of the builders . |
| 8 | Decisions were made by reaching a consensus embracing every level of the hierarchy ; this made possible a unanimous agreement among household heads . |
| 9 | His voyage is based on similar ones which , he believes , were carried out by Chinese in the third century BC , and which made possible the great civilisations of Central and South America . |
| 10 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 11 | But with the assistance of a Warrington watchmaker , John Kay , he invented improvements to machinery used in the local cotton industry , and in 1769 patented a spinning frame , which made possible the mechanical spinning of the warp , whereas the early Spinning Jenny was only suitable for spinning the weft . |
| 12 | Ethel Helliwell is seen checking the electric wiring which made possible the spectacular effects |
| 13 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 14 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 15 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 16 | Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving . |
| 17 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 18 | Watch you do n't er swallow that the wrong way . |
| 19 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |
| 20 | The cops separate the pair and make each the same offer . |
| 21 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 22 | The relation in Lowland Amerindian societies between power , knowledge , scarce resources and social action is increasingly recognized as a key theoretical area for debate ; and for many investigators who specialize in South American studies they see a critical need for the elaboration of a theory of power ( or various of them ) that would make understandable the non-centralized authority structures of Tropical South America . |
| 23 | Returning from Paris on Nov. 5 after talks with President François Mitterrand , President Hassan Gouled Aptidon proposed peace talks with the FRUD on Nov. 20 , but these were then cancelled , the government demanding that the Front release prisoners first . |
| 24 | His theory and exhaustive descriptive model make possible a thorough account of the differences between verse styles ; such accounts up to now ( e.g. Fowler 1971 ) have been vague and partial . |
| 25 | Tectonic dips are negligible in this region and the winding escarpments , with many isolated " jebels " or hill outliers in between ( plate 6.1 ) make possible a detailed investigation of the lateral variations in this so-called formation , on a scale beyond our dreams in more vegetated temperate terrains . |
| 26 | These have been loosely termed ‘ universalist ’ theories of language , since the basic tenet is that there are universal structures of grammar and especially of syntax , in which all people have ‘ competence ’ and which underlie and make possible the different utterances that we observe in the actual practice of language . |
| 27 | Level 3 Know that some life forms became extinct a long time ago and others more recently . |
| 28 | It also made respectable the unfamiliar doctrine of ‘ positive discrimination ’ — going beyond weak doctrines of equality ( perceived as the removal of artificial obstacles ) , to strong doctrines ( based on the conviction that the socially disadvantaged should receive more than , not the same as , their more fortunate contemporaries ) . |
| 29 | Yeah I always wan na paint that a different colour . |
| 30 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |