Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For underdeveloped countries the computer makes it possible to leapfrog certain stages of development by slashing paper bureaucracy , streamlining production and improving health care . |
| 3 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 4 | The microprocessor makes it possible to pick out ore-bearing rocks fast enough for 64 separate air jets to deflect them . |
| 5 | The notion of putting down the hardcore floor of the hangar using NAM volunteers and not the contractor made it possible to slice £10,000 off the cost of the project . |
| 6 | Market forces are based on contract , and the proposal that I advanced would clarify the law to make it possible for people to enter into contracts , which would have the consequences that I described . |
| 7 | The Act makes it possible for the properties to be transferred from the local authorities to housing associations , tenant co-operatives , or private landlords . |
| 8 | It is possible to store such an amazing amount of information , but this has to be carefully organised on the disk to make it possible to find files easily . |
| 9 | As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles . |
| 10 | By creating favourable situations and environments in this way , the physiotherapist makes it possible for the patient to move actively and specifically without effort . |
| 11 | However , their multiple condensation at the level of the state makes it possible to speak , not just of a set of regional problems but of a general crisis of hegemony . |
| 12 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 13 | The charcoal made it possible to get a carbon-14 date on the deposit , giving an age of about 10 770 years before the present . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Ruth Aplin , teacher of a class in the final year at Fox Primary , one of the feeder schools to Holland Park , put it , the scheme makes it possible for a class to tackle far more ambitious and varied projects . |
| 16 | This facility is also open to the public making it possible to watch the enthusiasts and craftspersons at work . |
| 17 | While it is not possible to demonstrate that any of the Continental braids are of Anglo-Saxon , even Kentish , manufacture , the very close similarity between some examples on each side of the Channel makes it possible that they are at least from the same source . |
| 18 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |