Example sentences of "make it possible " in BNC.

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1 Although the curvature and track geometry precludes speeds much in excess of 100mph ( except by upgrading at unacceptable costs ) the power : weight ratio , acceleration and braking of the HSTs immediately demonstrated their worth and have made it possible to introduce some very useful cuts in journey times .
2 The Anglo-American special relationship , on the other hand , is as alive as ever , and has made it possible for us to buy advanced US weapon systems like Polaris and Trident on very favourable terms .
3 The past year 's thaw has made it possible for at least 35 non-governmental organisations to open up offices .
4 In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates .
5 This simplicity has made it possible to work out how particular aspects of behaviour are controlled .
6 Scientists worldwide are facing the ever-increasing dilemma of how to handle vast quantities of data that advances in high technology have made it possible to generate .
7 We will complete the massive investment in new technology — Europe 's biggest computerisation project — that has made it possible to raise the quality of service to the public .
8 The realities of modern medical technology have made it possible for doctors to extend the process of dying through the use , for example , of what are colloquially , but perhaps inaptly , called ‘ life-support ’ machines .
9 This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible .
10 In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work .
11 Now an atheist computer has declared its lack of belief in these gentlemen and , to howls of delight from fundamentalists in both Jewish and Christian religions , has made it possible that Ol' Grampa Moses was the culprit after all .
12 The large size of the chamber , which permits the introduction of several specimens at one time , and the reduction in preparation time by removing the need to coat specimens has made it possible to scan much larger numbers of specimens than would normally be possible .
13 Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years .
14 It is this all important human love between parent and child , particularly the mother , that could well be the origin of the power which has made it possible for there to be established within the human mind this thing we call a ‘ conscience ’ .
15 Research into fluorescent tube lighting , used widely in commercial and public buildings , has made it possible to save over 90 per cent of electricity .
16 The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk .
17 This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them .
18 And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible .
19 More recently , the coming of photography has made it possible for even the least talented among us to produce our own pictorial records .
20 Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting .
21 A recently patented process by the company Woodbenders has made it possible to make a made-to-measure arch with preformed wood or mdf .
22 On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS .
23 Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England .
24 Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible
25 At the same time , the astonishing flowering of science and technology has made it possible to organise and exploit the world and its natural resources on a scale which no earlier civilisation could have imagined ; it has also bred a widely held belief , verging on the mythical or superstitious , that ‘ science is the solution to all our problems ’ .
26 In addition to such single-industry , cross-country studies the recent availability of quantitative survey data in Britain and the United States has now made it possible to test some explanatory hypotheses of bargaining structures more systematically across a much broader cross-section of industries .
27 Second , technological advances have made it possible to provide many more , and different , broadcasting facilities .
28 In fact , they have made it possible to process far greater amounts of data than ever before .
29 Thus Boris ' failure has made it possible for Peggy to succeed ; his depression is the price of her exhilaration , his misery is the occasion of her rejoicing .
30 It was the view of Engels ( 1884 ) that these inheritance arrangements provided the foundation of the development of capitalism in Britain in the nineteenth century , since they had made it possible to retain property and wealth — and with them all other forms of social privilege and power — within the hands of a small number of families from one generation to the next .
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