Example sentences of "making it possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the outside of the frame were attached wrist straps making it possible to support the instrument and use both hands in a performance . |
| 2 | As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs . |
| 3 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 4 | Brown ( 1973 ) provided the first set of guidelines to be widely adopted for the calculation of MLU , thus making it possible to use this measure as a basis for comparing language performance across children . |
| 5 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 6 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The archer fish 's large eyes can be aligned so that , like our own , they produce a three-dimensional image , making it possible to judge distances . |
| 8 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 9 | And now with the extra money , making it possible to take out smaller mortgages on apartments for letting on the East Side , they were already doing well … . |
| 10 | As he admits , the divisions are arbitrary , but they have the advantage of making it possible to refer easily to the level of grammatical complexity in a speech sample , and to group children on the basis of language complexity . |
| 11 | This facility is also open to the public making it possible to watch the enthusiasts and craftspersons at work . |
| 12 | It concentrated instead on living examples of people who were judged highly creative , thereby making it possible to evaluate them at first-hand on objective personality tests or similar assessment procedures . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 15 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 16 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 17 | As technology improves , thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard , new sources face increasingly more strict controls . |
| 18 | Teeth which are permanent fixtures can evolve complex shapes , fitting precisely with their partners in the opposite jaw , making it possible to chew and slice in a way not open to most reptiles . |
| 19 | As with every other technological innovation , they may attempt to protect their ‘ inventions ’ which means after altering the genes , they could slap a patent on it , making it possible to own not just an idea and a technique , but the matrix of a living animal . |
| 20 | These have concentrated on individuals adopted shortly after birth , making it possible to disentangle genetic from environmental effects . |
| 21 | Whether it is so curved that it closes in on itself ( like a balloon ) , thus making it possible to do a round trip of the Universe in a straight line , we simply do n't know . |
| 22 | A new GetBulk PDU facilitates the retrieval of large amounts of data , such as tables , by making it possible to bundle a series of GetNext requests into a single request-response operation , improving performance . |
| 23 | Slowly better systems were introduced , making it possible to look more analytically at what was happening . |
| 24 | The design of cylinder head combustion chambers is being further refined with the use of new light metal alloys and ceramics making it possible to overcome the weight disadvantage faced by diesel engines . |
| 25 | The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick . |
| 26 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 27 | If the calls of the CBI and others for such a cut had not been so loud , the pound would probably have been stronger still , making it possible to cut rates even sooner , and by more . |
| 28 | By the end of 1991 , all outstanding issues between the two exchanges as regards rights , clearing arrangements and operational aspects were resolved , thus making it possible to finalise the new exchange 's rulebook and receive SIB/OFT approval to commence business . |
| 29 | The safety lamp killed , like iron rail , flat ropes and cages , not by reducing safety , which it clearly did n't , but by making it possible to expose vastly increased numbers of miners to that deadly mixture , geology and profit-hungry entrepreneurs . |
| 30 | Another appears to protect normal tissue against the effects of radiotherapy , making it possible to apply higher cancer-killing doses to tumours . |