Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During a ferocious argument with Diana , Charles made clear the royal family 's position . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Profits before interest fell by 13% to £17.3m , though a lower interest bill helped slim the pre-tax fall to 4% . |
| 18 | Katherine glanced up as she slit open the third envelope . |
| 19 | Triumph sent a surge of new strength through the Prophet , and he crossed the broad sidewalk at a lurching run , shouldering an indignant passer-by out of his way , jerked open the rear door of the car and half climbed , half fell , onto the back seat . |
| 20 | She crouched down and jerked open the two doors , fully expecting the cupboard to have been converted into a homely little rat lair . |
| 21 | The move was necessary in part because the limited finances of the club , stretched by the buying of Stephenson , made impossible the large-scale buying of ready-made players at high transfer fees . |
| 22 | Medical definitions implemented in the Contagious Diseases legislation made visible the perceived threat of the prostitute , by focusing on her sexuality and isolating it as unnatural and deviant . |
| 23 | ‘ Three months in prison , ’ they told Soapy the next day . |
| 24 | Sean Walsh seemed watchful the whole time . |
| 25 | A second later a tall , broad-shouldered figure threw open the rear door — clearly too impatient to wait for the chauffeur to bring the vehicle to a halt . |
| 26 | Leaping from the cabs , Rocky and his fellow trucker ran to the back of their rigs and threw open the rear doors . |
| 27 | She threw open the outer door and looked down the side of the ship . |
| 28 | Yet when Stephen threw open the front door and led the way through the entrance hall into a lofty and elegant room , graced with pillars and dominated by an ornate white marble fireplace , even Jonadab was taken aback . |
| 29 | I threw open the front door and looked into the street . |
| 30 | Swords and dirks drawn , they ran up , threw open the great door , and flung themselves within . |