Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ethel Helliwell is seen checking the electric wiring which made possible the spectacular effects |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 7 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 8 | Given that the preferred creditors , such as PAYE and VAT , have substantial claims on the assets , the receivers were not optimistic that unsecured creditors would see any of their money back . |
| 9 | Given that the two parties were perceived as representing different poles of the political spectrum , government policy would lurch from being right of the political center under one adminstration to being left of center under another . |
| 10 | Given that the main aims of most arts departments , and of the examination syllabuses in arts subjects , refer to the development of such qualities as ‘ imagination ’ , ‘ creativity ’ , and the ‘ ability to respond expressively to given stimuli ’ ; qualities that are essentially concerned with that same kind of engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ mentioned above , and we are left asking the question ‘ Can , or even should , children 's work in the arts be examined at all ? ’ |
| 11 | It should work like a dream with halftones because , given that the grey scales are captured PostSCript can work on them with its internal routines to perform some stunning effects . |
| 12 | Given that the laws of optics are true ( and for the naive inductivist , this can be established from observation by induction ) , and given that the initial conditions are accurately described , then the explanation of the rainbow necessarily follows . |
| 13 | Given that the eventual needs of a working system may be biased towards the domain of Commerce , the results for the Business , Employment and Finance documents take on a particular relevance . |
| 14 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 15 | Make that the blue ones . |
| 16 | If anything goes wrong the international repercussions will be enormous , General . ’ |
| 17 | In such cases students are required to meet half the minimum requirements for their final award before the Polytechnic recommends reinstatement of grant . |
| 18 | An office was rented in St Albans and a small staff was appointed , with Michael Hardman as the first editor of publications , responsible for both What 's Brewing and the new and immediately successful Good Beer Guide , which listed all the known outlets for real ale . |
| 19 | ‘ Place needs all the good teachers it can get , from what I can gather , ’ said Major Tilney . |
| 20 | Utah , in particular , needs all the new employers it can find . |
| 21 | The teacher now needs all the possible aids at his disposal . |
| 22 | ‘ But I can see how it might have rung all the wrong bells with young Folly here . |
| 23 | On Harry 's first day at play school , his mum was about to take him along to meet all the other kids when it started snowing outside . |
| 24 | However , such facilities fail to meet all the financial requirements of multinational corporations in today 's world ; thus banks have increased their capabilities by offering more extensive and comprehensive banking services via direct representation overseas or by strengthening correspondent relationships via consortium banks and clubs . |
| 25 | Of course , it isn't — and no set of general purpose guidelines is ever likely to meet all the diverse requirements of the market . |
| 26 | Far fewer work-hours will be required to produce goods and services to the level needed to meet all the basic requirements for food , shelter , leisure , and health of the entire population , including the very old . |
| 27 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 28 | When Shell and UKOOA — representing all the major companies — appeared before the Select Committee , they were astonished that anyone should suggest that they , as operators of various North sea fields , could not be approached by any employee , regardless of whether that person was employed directly by a company or employed by a contractor . |
| 29 | Last week , Mr Perez de Cuellar called for a ‘ structured ’ Afghan delegation representing all the Afghan factions to meet and organise an intra-Afghan dialogue . |
| 30 | It has varied this century from small war time cabinets where the ministers have had 110 departmental responsibilities , to cabinets consisting of more than 20 ministers representing all the main departments of state . |