Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The ordinance envisioned a common and compulsory branding system which would make possible the easy identification of cattle from anywhere in the island . |
| 11 | But I urge him to accept that a single currency , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) made clear the other day , means a massive transfer of political and economic power to the centre . |
| 12 | The concentration on the subjective nature of experience made clear the logical privacy , and hence non-physicality , of sense experience in a way in which it was never made clear within the classical and scholastic traditions . |
| 13 | During a ferocious argument with Diana , Charles made clear the royal family 's position . |
| 14 | On the other hand , both the interactionists and Foucault make clear the historical specificity of Western concepts of sexuality . |
| 15 | Insurers are more nervous about Ariane because if something goes wrong the whole rocket is likely to blow up , destroying everything on board . |
| 16 | All the thoughts and experience of the world had etched and moulded there , in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form , the animalism of Greece , the lust of Rome , the mysticism of the Middle Ages with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves , the return of the Pagan world , the sins of the Borgias . |
| 17 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 18 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 19 | In all other cases outside of those exceptions the order which prescribes unpleasant consequences , unless a person does a particular act , must make clear the precise time within which the act is to be done ( RSC Ord 42 , r 2(1) ) . |
| 20 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 21 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 22 | However the example I have chosen of the stylistics of manner should make clear the potential difference between the two approaches , and at the same time illustrate the use of a more technically advanced linguistics than that drawn on by Spitzer , who like Auerbach belonged to the European philological tradition more than to the modern tradition of linguistics . |
| 23 | Though it 's now based in Montreal , the ensemble is dedicated to keeping alive the traditional dancing of its native country . |
| 24 | Despite the weather the under-18s succeeded in keeping alive the prestigious tournament now reduced to 63 holes . |
| 25 | " One of them went to Australia , " said Clara , " and the other one is married , and lives right the other side of town . |
| 26 | Profits before interest fell by 13% to £17.3m , though a lower interest bill helped slim the pre-tax fall to 4% . |
| 27 | When people say old the old country . |
| 28 | The growth in the public sector , both in terms of its scale and the diversity of its activities , has outstretched the traditional machinery of public accountability , heavily dependent upon the formal relationship between the executive and the legislative . |
| 29 | More than once she has unbolted the front door in the night and gone out in her nightdress . |
| 30 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |