Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ethel Helliwell is seen checking the electric wiring which made possible the spectacular effects |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Watch you do n't er swallow that the wrong way . |
| 11 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |
| 12 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The ordinance envisioned a common and compulsory branding system which would make possible the easy identification of cattle from anywhere in the island . |
| 18 | Given that the alternative strategy is to continue to hold the portfolio of shares , this profit is independent of the value of the index at delivery , and so is riskless . |
| 19 | That is a pretty substantial er party given that the Communist Party is essentially a party of working class militants , of shop stewards , of trade union organizers and so on . |
| 20 | Given that the long-term aim was the establishment of a communist society , Bukharin argued that it was necessary to develop large-scale , particularly heavy , industry : |
| 21 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 22 | Given that the typical firm expects the aggregate demand curve to be AD , it follows that the general level of prices set at period t - 1 for period t will be P . |
| 23 | That is a blistering pace , given that the typical investment is a modest $2,500 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Calculate the molar mass and thus the relative molecular mass of the solute given that the ebullioscopic constant of propanone is 1.71 K mol kg . |
| 26 | Given that the average cost of a keeping a person in prison is 288 per week ( a staggering 14,976 per annum ) , the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of imprisonment is questionable . |
| 27 | Now it 's finally open , nearly two years after De Niro first approached Nieporent with the idea , the Tribeca Bar and Grill will need to turn over more than £1.2 million a year just to break even , something that may prove difficult , given that the average bill for the restaurant 's simple fish and pasta dishes is around $40 a head . |
| 28 | Given that the average score for all A-level entrants was 5.4 , it can be seen that all non-standard entry groups , apart from those entering on the basis of 1–4 O-levels , performed at least as well or better than the average A-level entrants . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Given that the eminent genealogist Sir Anthony Wagner has said in his book English Genealogy , that ‘ where a distinctive surname is found over the centuries in one place in successive tax returns and the like , family continuity can be presumed even if descent can not be proved step by step ’ , a useful study is possible . |