Example sentences of "made [adj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voyage is based on similar ones which , he believes , were carried out by Chinese in the third century BC , and which made possible the great civilisations of Central and South America . |
| 2 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ethel Helliwell is seen checking the electric wiring which made possible the spectacular effects |
| 5 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 6 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Theoretically , therefore , the statutes made possible the social transformation for which liberals had been striving . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During a ferocious argument with Diana , Charles made clear the royal family 's position . |
| 15 | Then we almost enjoyed the Great Escape from Seve Ballesteros who followed Paul Azinger into the Mickey Mouse blue-dyed water which made this the greatest spectator show on earth … |
| 16 | The move was necessary in part because the limited finances of the club , stretched by the buying of Stephenson , made impossible the large-scale buying of ready-made players at high transfer fees . |
| 17 | Medical definitions implemented in the Contagious Diseases legislation made visible the perceived threat of the prostitute , by focusing on her sexuality and isolating it as unnatural and deviant . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , when I found out how well-known he was , I made sure the first spot was very organised . |
| 19 | I made sure the vital information was given out as simply as possible , without any of the accepted police jargon . |
| 20 | But before he did , he made sure the brown holdall was under his bed . |
| 21 | He spoke in a penetrating voice that made all the other customers look on with interest . |
| 22 | I recall that she made all the other women at the party look drab , washed-out . ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 24 | The little girl seemed to have been abandoned , so the Sheikha took her home , cared for her and made all the necessary preparations to keep her . |
| 25 | When he came home on leave in April 1930 , they both returned to their childhood home and made all the necessary arrangements for its sale . |
| 26 | She wrote back most warmly and sympathetically — and on one sheet of writing paper made all the right points . |
| 27 | A thing that worried me all through the deliberations … was this : supposing we made all the right recommendations and supposing the Government gave effect to them in legislation , how long would it be before the judges turned everything upside down ? |
| 28 | There was a biting wind from the right which made all the dead winter stems rattle and rustle feverishly . |
| 29 | This visit made apparent the dual purpose of the scheme — of accountability and professional development . |
| 30 | Well , well they 've just sold a player to Leicester for eighty five thousand and they , they bought a fella from Port Vale on a free transfer , well he 's a Richard they 've bought him back again , only with a , all due respect but er now he 's got he 's playing very well with Leicester now , and he 's , he 's scored two goals and made one the other Saturday , and , and everyone , every match since he 's been there every time he 's played . |