Example sentences of "make it possible [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was the view of Engels ( 1884 ) that these inheritance arrangements provided the foundation of the development of capitalism in Britain in the nineteenth century , since they had made it possible to retain property and wealth — and with them all other forms of social privilege and power — within the hands of a small number of families from one generation to the next .
2 Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England .
3 True — but only recently has technology made it possible to destroy life faster than it can be replaced .
4 By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like .
5 This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them .
6 My hon. Friend will recognise that , in introducing the concept of premiums into income support , we have made it possible to concentrate help on those who most need it , and not least families with young children .
7 Changes in technology have made it possible to imagine means of communication that would have been unthinkable two hundred years ago : radio broadcasts , instant word-processing , telephone conversations , etc .
8 VenturCom 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support embedded X-Windows , reportedly a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed NFS on a diskless single-board computer via E-NFS .
9 VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility .
10 The needs of service provision will often necessarily dictate when space is available for teaching , though negotiations and liaison with managers should make it possible to streamline provision .
11 ESRC support will make it possible to test theories systematically and rigorously to answer such questions as : To what extent do differences in national cultures and tradition in Central and Eastern Europe cause different responses in post-Communist societies ?
12 The second edition of Introduction to High Energy Physics by D. H. Perkins requires considerable initial knowledge of quantum theory , but this does make it possible to use Feynmann diagrams immediately .
13 New technology , for example the use of membranes , can also make it possible to clean water so that it can be recycled .
14 This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it .
15 Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect .
16 Showcase Vista from Rochester Software Connection Inc will make it possible to extract data and manage it using the Macintosh ; and an IBM-Apple facility called shared folders will enable Mac and AS/400 files to be managed together on the desktop .
17 This will make it possible to suggest ways in which the massive foreign aid efforts currently under way to prevent very serious and increasing food and fuel deficiencies be made more effective .
18 There 's no going back from Grey 's capture — not until time has dulled the sting , at least , and made it possible to mention peace without being called a traitor by some city haberdasher in the commons .
19 Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient .
20 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 .
21 Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this .
22 This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism 's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms .
23 Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon .
24 This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys .
25 Cheap newsprint ; new technology which made it possible to attract readers by printing illustrations relatively cheaply ; growing mass literacy , at least in western Europe ; mass newspaper readerships ; a resulting growth of mass public feeling , often emotional and volatile , on international questions : all these were now adding another element to the changing picture of relations between the European states .
26 The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity .
27 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 .
28 Very high levels of compression like this make it possible to transmit image data over ordinary dial-up , digital telephone lines rather than expensive , special broadband lines .
29 These arrangements with established publishers also make it possible to reach bookshops through direct sales representation .
30 Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford .
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