Example sentences of "[verb] possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electricity continued to replace steam-powered mechanical drives , and the subdivision of power which it made possible remained a fundamentally attractive characteristic . |
| 2 | And it then made possible going by the shortest route . |
| 3 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 4 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |
| 5 | Underlying confidence was such that the system survived the extraordinary madness of the South Sea Bubble in 1720 , so well that , once the vapour had cleared , it became possible to talk of beneficial outcomes from history 's most infamous bursting . |
| 6 | With the isolation of the gene responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy it became possible to track the defective gene in most pedigrees and to offer increasingly accurate prenatal diagnosis either by deletion analysis in many cases or by using linked markers . |
| 7 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 8 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 9 | It became possible to control , if not cure , the symptoms of many psychiatric disorders by the use of drugs , and therefore it was possible to discharge patients after fairly short stays in hospital , continuing their drug therapy , in many cases , as out-patients . |
| 10 | SDRs could now be used more freely among participating countries : it became possible to use them to settle obligations without changing them first into currencies ; they could be loaned to other countries ; and they could be used as a security for a loan by another central bank or government . |
| 11 | Once it had been opened , it became possible to test patients ' sera in parallel , thereby convincing other doctors that their tests could be improved . |
| 12 | If eventually it became possible to access most of the major manufacturing and mining regions , that was a secondary , although welcome development , not a primary intent . |
| 13 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 14 | It became possible to argue that although the GDP had undoubtedly continued to grow under the Tories , and more rapidly than in Britain 's past , the jerky ‘ stop-go ’ process was helping to weaken the relative position of the British economy on the world market , a position which bad become exposed with the dismantling of the imperial trade preferences and the progressive liberalisation of world trade after Bretton Woods . |
| 15 | Other instruments were invented which recorded the actions of the heart and the flow in the vessels , and it became possible to investigate how the whole system was regulated throughout all the different activities of life . |
| 16 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 17 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 18 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 19 | Because of the flying buttress system , it became possible to construct thinner walls as time passed instead of increasing the thickness to offset the large windows and higher vaults . |
| 20 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 21 | The discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1912 made a significant difference too : it then became possible to determine unambiguously whether a small , hard crystal was indeed a diamond . |
| 22 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 23 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 24 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 25 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 26 | It became possible to change trains again at the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 27 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 28 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 29 | With the implementation of the present Call-slip analysis exercise it became possible to review the situation after an interval of almost ten years , and in the tables which follow , those findings of the present Survey which relate to foreign-language material are set alongside the broadly comparable findings of the earlier periods . |
| 30 | It even became possible to consider that the horse might also have a mind ! |