Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage .
2 In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past .
3 ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place .
4 Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times .
5 So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely .
6 The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details .
7 Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry .
8 These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies .
9 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 .
10 This is encouraged and made possible through an international network .
11 It is a stunning image made possible by a freak set of weather conditions .
12 Thus , in the UK power is concentrated in the cabinet , a situation made possible by a weak legislature and strong political parties .
13 Proper regulation of banks , together with the generally lower interest rates made possible by a stable currency , also reduced worries about the property market .
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 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples .
21 The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) .
22 Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ .
23 The first task was to halt the rapid North Korean advance , then the Un commander-in-chief , General MacArthur , launched a counter-attack , allied with a brilliant flanking movement made possible by an amphibious assault on Inchon .
24 The budget for the 1989/90 financial year which began on July 1 , 1989 , included a planned 4.4 per cent increase in expenditure to KD3,549,100,000 , made possible by an expected 8.6 per cent rise in revenues to KD2,230,500,000 .
25 A new Chair in European Law has been created , made possible by an initial commitment well in excess of £100,000 by the Birmingham law firm of Wragge & Co .
26 For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts .
27 Therefore in the families with only one known affected subject , where samples can not be obtained from enough family members for linkage studies , or in the 20% or so that remain uninformative with the current probes , no predictive DNA tests are available .
28 In the later stages of the disease , anaemia and hypoalbuminaemia develop due to the combined effects of protein loss and leakage of blood through the damaged mucosa .
29 In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis .
30 Eventually he became depressed by the sheer difficulty of his subject , by the realization that he was not , as he put it , going to be able to build a cathedral .
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