Example sentences of "make [adj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality .
2 The ‘ intercom ’ of the Quartet 's title refers not only to technological developments in information-processing systems , but also to how these developments have affected intercourse between individuals in everyday situations , and how this has in turn made possible a new role in society for narrative fiction .
3 Removal of these recovery allowances made possible a general acceleration of East Coast 125mph services from May 1987 .
4 Here , too , of course , a misplaced word could result in a denunciation and draconian ‘ punishment ’ , but plainly the massive growth in the number of critics of the Party made possible a wide range of devastating comment .
5 Before ten minutes had passed he had rejected this in favour of a 50″ × 40″ canvas that made possible a full-length portrait ( Plate 19 ) .
6 He compared the press to a scaffolding , surrounding a building under construction ( the worker 's state ) , which marked the outlines of the structure , facilitated communication among the builders , enhanced the effective assignment of tasks , and made possible a clear view of the achievements of the builders .
7 Decisions were made by reaching a consensus embracing every level of the hierarchy ; this made possible a unanimous agreement among household heads .
8 This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving .
12 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 .
13 The cops separate the pair and make each the same offer .
14 In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate .
15 The relation in Lowland Amerindian societies between power , knowledge , scarce resources and social action is increasingly recognized as a key theoretical area for debate ; and for many investigators who specialize in South American studies they see a critical need for the elaboration of a theory of power ( or various of them ) that would make understandable the non-centralized authority structures of Tropical South America .
16 His theory and exhaustive descriptive model make possible a thorough account of the differences between verse styles ; such accounts up to now ( e.g. Fowler 1971 ) have been vague and partial .
17 Tectonic dips are negligible in this region and the winding escarpments , with many isolated " jebels " or hill outliers in between ( plate 6.1 ) make possible a detailed investigation of the lateral variations in this so-called formation , on a scale beyond our dreams in more vegetated temperate terrains .
18 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 ) .
19 The guidance advises the accountant that test checks on a suitable number of controlled trust accounts may make possible a corresponding decrease in the number of checks in respect of other accounts .
20 There was an intensified sense of a gap between present and past , and of the need to find a way of bridging it which would make possible an adequate statement of belief for the present day .
21 The ordinance envisioned a common and compulsory branding system which would make possible the easy identification of cattle from anywhere in the island .
22 Make that a central aim in your descriptive writing .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 During a ferocious argument with Diana , Charles made clear the royal family 's position .
26 On the other hand , both the interactionists and Foucault make clear the historical specificity of Western concepts of sexuality .
27 Devon and West Torridge : Friday afternoon declaration could make this a crucial seat ; Emma Nicholson , who angered some local supporters by backing Michael Heseltine in leadership election , is fighting challenge of David McBride.Falmouth and Camborne : Former double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe in first attempt to become an MP ; but Lib Dems believe retiring Tory David Mudd 's majority of just over 5,000 is vulnerable to Mrs Terrye Jones , chairman of the local district council .
28 But I would not make this a necessary condition when designing a border , since to do so would be to deny oneself the pleasure of many first-rate foliage plants .
29 You can make this a reciprocal arrangement .
30 The variety of subject search approaches and output formats should ultimately make this a valuable service — although to realize full potential it must achieve a more comprehensive coverage of publishers than at present .
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