Example sentences of "[verb] it possible [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 2 | Since the 1970s , developments in the understanding of genetic processes and the manipulation and culture of cells have made it possible to create living organisms that are tailored to meet specific human needs . |
| 3 | Recent advances in methods aimed at mapping chromosomal regions and isolating novel genes , have made it possible to develop comprehensive strategies for the positional cloning of human disease genes . |
| 4 | Recent advances in gene manipulation have made it possible to express foreign genes in heterologous systems . |
| 5 | ‘ You always did believe it possible to cure other people 's unhappiness , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In association with Museums and galleries , it will make it possible to mount new kinds of displays and to make the usually unseen collections accessible . |
| 7 | This , it is hoped , will make it possible to devise new ways of understanding ‘ artisanal production , ’ 'pre-industrial society' and the place of ‘ popular culture ’ in the process of industrialisation . |
| 8 | The IRFEL in particular will make it possible to study molecular excitation and dissociation by using infrared multiphoton excitation under collision free conditions . |
| 9 | The detailed demographic studies of Ranunculus repens made by Sarukhán in the field at Henfaes and followed by unpublished studies by Soane made it possible to give quantitative measures to the population dynamics of this species . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Novel methods of analysis made it possible to do chemical separations in minutes instead of days or weeks . |
| 12 | Mrs Bottomley said Prof Day was ‘ quite right ’ that AIDS remained a very serious threat but added that new statistics made it possible to frame future policy ‘ according to facts , not fantasy ’ . |
| 13 | This approach ( as opposed to relying on remote link via a telephone line ) made it possible to provide interactive analyses during negotiation meetings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 16 | More and more doctors are facing the same sort of dilemma , as the proportion of elderly people increases in Britain and medical advances make it possible to keep alive patients who would previously have died . |
| 17 | ‘ Because of the influx of television , video , radio , newspapers , and other means of mass communication , ’ they argued , ‘ the world has become a global village , making it possible to carry unhealthy materials from one side to another . ’ |
| 18 | Nowadays , we are well used to this switching back and forth , and cutaways are used not only to hide jump-cuts but also to telescope time by making it possible to remove uninteresting parts of lengthy actions . |
| 19 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
| 20 | It is possible to use in a diesel engine , but the main purpose is to make it possible to use unleaded petrol in a vehicle which can not normally use it . |
| 21 | The importance of the law in such matters is in creating a centre of power which makes it possible to enforce moral duties . |
| 22 | The reason why communication is achieved here by lexical means only is of course because the context of shared knowledge makes it possible to use minimal cues . |
| 23 | Retroactive notation makes it possible to indicate distinct facets without recourse to mixed notation . |
| 24 | This makes it possible to keep audio output going even when the read head is on the move and the CD-ROM is not being accessed . |
| 25 | A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted . |
| 26 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 27 | For underdeveloped countries the computer makes it possible to leapfrog certain stages of development by slashing paper bureaucracy , streamlining production and improving health care . |
| 28 | The warm spring climate makes it possible to produce early market garden crops before those in other parts of Britain . |
| 29 | These have been recreated using an amazing new British technique which makes it possible to produce accurate facsimiles of ancient bodies . |
| 30 | Many tests develop a system of numerical scoring which makes it possible to make precise comparisons between the scores obtained by different individuals . |