Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] possible [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 6 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 7 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 8 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 9 | The new factory made it possible for the company to produce increasingly elaborate garments . |
| 10 | A similar view of the importance of social movements is taken by Touraine ( 1973 ) in his account of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende in Chile where , he argues , the activities and influence of a variety of movements within the governing coalition made it possible for the poor to express their grievances directly and continuously , instead of having them diverted ( and perhaps stifled ) in the official channels of a monolithic ruling party . |
| 11 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |