Example sentences of "make it possible " in BNC.

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1 Today 's methods of birth control make it possible for a couple to choose whether or not to have a child .
2 The calve muscles at the back of the shin bone make it possible to raise the heel .
3 It is these muscles which make it possible to stand up straight and bend over to lift objects .
4 You make it possible .
5 The growing volume of eye-witness accounts emerging from the firmly sealed region make it possible to gain a clearer picture of how the protests grew .
6 These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations .
7 So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day .
8 Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities .
9 Calculations make it possible to compare and contrast molecular configuration or perturbations with experimental results and ‘ at times ’ can expose them as possibly accurate or inaccurate .
10 These advantages make it possible for the miners to produce a high output , of about 3 tonnes per man per shift .
11 The assumption was that the creation of larger authorities ( with larger budgets ) would attract less parochial ( more managerial ) councillors and also make it possible to attract a different sort of officer , less tied to the narrowness of existing departmental boundaries with a management style closer to that of the major corporations in the private sector .
12 Both Rhodes and Duncan and Goodwin , in their different ways , make it possible to identify some dynamic for change .
13 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 .
14 But this is overcome by the successive production series , which make it possible to incorporate improvements suggested by experience , once they have been fully thought out .
15 There are , of course , many other important points that I have not touched on , such as the administrative procedures that make it possible to build a power station , the organisation of nuclear safety , and the protection of the environment .
16 The small number of cells involved , and their unique appearance make it possible to study the complete developmental history of a single cell — something that is not yet technically feasible in vertebrates .
17 Sophisticated dyes and colourings make it possible to hide this sign of age for as long as we wish and those in public life may , unfortunately , believe that only by covering the tell-tale grey will they maintain their credibility as energetic and creative top people .
18 It may still be necessary to avoid certain food items or undergo other forms of treatment , but it should speed the body 's recovery , and make it possible to return to a more normal diet sooner .
19 So are the means of transport which make it possible .
20 Nobody likes to think about death … especially premature death … but the miracles of modern medicine now make it possible for someone who dies to give life to another .
21 These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation .
22 Newer LAN/MAN technologies make it possible to integrate data and voice traffic locally too .
23 Indeed , both the limiting fraction under Method B and the use of the adjusting items make it possible for a company to report a loss , but still make payments under its PRP scheme .
24 This meeting strongly condemns the regulations of the Food Controller , which favour the rich who are not in danger of being without food , make it possible for the wealthy to provide unscrupulous profiteers to defraud the nation by government sanction i.e. the fixing of prices for potatoes and other edibles , and therefore calls for Lord Devonport 's removal from office .
25 Make it possible for the other person to change what they do .
26 New rules make it possible to obtain the maximum relief from CGT at age 60 .
27 Government grants , up to 50 per cent of capital investment , make it possible for a syndicate of small haulage contractors to collect goods , carried long-distance by rail , for further distribution by road .
28 Such packages , when opened , are found to contain many different ingredients of different size and weight which together make it possible for life to be lived at home with a tolerable degree of safety and comfort .
29 Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) .
30 The earliest in the series of brooches is thought to be that from the cemetery at Chessell Down ; the various combinations of the design elements on the other examples in the series make it possible to suggest the sequence in which they were manufactured .
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