Example sentences of "made it possible " in BNC.

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1 Also , in 1974 , an adoption Act made it possible for couples of mixed denominational or religious origin to adopt .
2 This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner .
3 Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure .
4 In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material .
5 This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen .
6 Both the introduction of new rules on how societies could raise funds for mortgage loans and the 1987 stock market crash — which prompted small investors to get out of equities and put their money into building society saving accounts — made it possible for the societies to get their act together and fight back .
7 Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them .
8 The Council of Nicaea was the largest assembly of bishops hitherto , and though the great majority of the members were from the Greek East , the presence of Roman legates and the prominent role played by the sees of Alexandria and Antioch made it possible for the council to be given the title ‘ ecumenical ’ .
9 Half television , half microscope , Roberts 's invention made it possible to magnify living tissues up to 25,000 times , against an ordinary miscroscope 's 5,000 times .
10 Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town .
11 At this point the cycloaracylation process was discovered by Bayer , which made it possible to produce this type of substance .
12 This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides .
13 Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient .
14 … the subscription method democratized literary patronage , and made it possible for a community of wealthy people to contribute to the support of many authors .
15 In the early days of man 's evolution natural forces ensured that these individuals were weeded out of the human race and could not reproduce , but science has altered all that , made it possible to rear such frail specimens .
16 By 1935 the success of the children 's books made it possible for Ransome to buy a sea-going boat once again .
17 The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity .
18 Improved microscopic methods and new synthetic staining materials from the German chemical industry made it possible to see the parasite in films of blood from malarial patients .
19 Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks .
20 That , together with his high reputation as a painter , made it possible for John to feel much less responsibility on his own shoulders than in former collaborations .
21 On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion .
22 This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom .
23 The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters .
24 Long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea .
25 It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ .
26 All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition .
27 Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon .
28 Thanks to all who made it possible .
29 Major Stewart also made it possible for many sports clubs to have their own ground so all sport is catered for .
30 GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays .
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