Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It had Breton blood but , like the Breton , was heavily crossed with the Friesian and became extinct by the 1960s . |
| 11 | Yet in Ireland the Kerry almost became extinct by the early 1980s , and in 1983 the total world population of pedigree cows was only 200 . |
| 12 | The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain . |
| 13 | These teaching materials are techniques made manifest by the specific choice of language , designed and arranged as a series of tasks or exercises for immediate implementation . |
| 14 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |
| 15 | The Majlis on Oct. 31 approved a draft bill authorizing the Iranian President to take measures for the arrest and punishment anywhere in the world of US citizens found guilty by the Iranian judiciary of anti-Iran terrorist activity . |
| 16 | The case opened with very long and complicated arguments by Master Robert of Clipstone , proctor of the bishop , and Thomas was quick to note that the pope soon became bored by the lengthy statement of the facts by Robert , and told him roundly " to get to the point " . |
| 17 | Singapore fell because the Japanese swept through Malaya from the north , an invasion believed impossible by the British . |
| 18 | Victoria had on her nice towelling bib with a green frog on it but seemed subdued by the ceremonial atmosphere surrounding the meal : the gong and the shouting ; for she was unusually subdued , thank God . |
| 19 | The other nomes seemed puzzled by the small explosive figure that was suddenly among them . |
| 20 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 21 | She too seemed unaffected by the snarling posturing of her boy 's hostile and much favoured Canadian opponent Donovan ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock . |
| 22 | She seemed surprised by the new topic , perhaps relieved . |
| 23 | It was the third time the boy had tried to get past him , and , as before , he seemed surprised by the old man 's quickness ; shocked that , whichever way he moved , Tuan Ti Fo was there , blocking his way . |
| 24 | How far was the political crisis 1909–11 made inevitable by the Liberal victory in 1906 ? |
| 25 | Elections held in the overwhelmingly ethnic-Albanian Serbian province of Kosovo on May 24 , declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , were won by the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo ( DSK ) , which secured most of the seats in the 130-member Assembly . |
| 26 | It was a long drive from the airport , made tedious by the unnatural , tense silence in the cab . |
| 27 | This defect is , in part , made good by the Financial Services Act 1986 , which provides a statutory civil remedy in the event of a breach of the rules and regulations of the SIB , a Self Regulatory Organisation ( SRO ) , or a recognised professional body ( RPB ) , all of which operate rules that , inter alia , include the misuse of inside information . |
| 28 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 29 | Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly . |
| 30 | Thus was Fiddling denied the opportunity to keep in the fixture against the touring Indians , made famous by the celebrated arrival on the scene of Frank Tyson . |