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

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1 By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires .
2 This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch .
3 But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor .
4 For him the value of representative democracy resides in the fact that it makes possible the selection of effective political leaders , as well as providing a training for them .
5 In addition , it makes possible the recording , in the form of a ‘ map ’ , of something of the nature of that response .
6 One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board .
7 It makes possible the conferment of life peerages with a right to sit .
8 I can suggest three such general features : heredity is digital , it involves a phenotype-genotype distinction , and it makes possible the amplification of quantum events into macroscopic ones .
9 Often referred to as a means by which a nation , or even the world , can become a community , it makes possible the transmitting of messages from a small group of people to a vast number .
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