Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your articles bring alive the voices of our Compañeros in Chile . |
| 2 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 3 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 4 | The parish representatives will have the opportunity to discuss with the Agencies of their choice the forms of support which they need to have in their task of bringing alive the mission statement of each parish . |
| 5 | This gave wide investigative powers , and made possible the seizing , freezing and confiscation of assets . |
| 6 | More than anyone else , it was Macedo who made possible the realisation of his friend Chico Mendes 's dream — the Forest People 's Alliance . |
| 7 | Chile 's previous period of democracy and the way that the labour movement had developed it independent , political base and strong organisational structure during that time , made possible the development of militant collective action on the part of the proletariat . |
| 8 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 9 | But with the assistance of a Warrington watchmaker , John Kay , he invented improvements to machinery used in the local cotton industry , and in 1769 patented a spinning frame , which made possible the mechanical spinning of the warp , whereas the early Spinning Jenny was only suitable for spinning the weft . |
| 10 | Ethel Helliwell is seen checking the electric wiring which made possible the spectacular effects |
| 11 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His father , Samuel Whitbread I , who died in 1796 , left a legacy which made possible the building of the Bedford Infirmary ( later to become South Wing ) a few years later . |
| 14 | His voyage is based on similar ones which , he believes , were carried out by Chinese in the third century BC , and which made possible the great civilisations of Central and South America . |
| 15 | Several groups have tried to locate the wreck in the past 20 years since technology made possible the recovery of its contents . |
| 16 | The end of the war , and the politically liberal climate that existed during Carter 's presidency , made possible the appearance of the first Vietnam combat movies since The Green Berets . |
| 17 | For example , the deregulation of brokers ' commissions on Wall Street in 1975 started a revolution in other financial capitals — the ‘ big bang ’ in London — and made possible the rise in international competition in sectors previously reserved for nationals . |
| 18 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 19 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 20 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 21 | The resulting wealth made possible the issue of splendid coinages ( K. Jenkins ( 1976 ) Coins of Greek Sicily , edn 2 , for illustrations ) : the coinage of Segesta copies some famous Syracusan types such as the river-nymph Arethusa , but also depicts the local goddess Segesta ( Arch . |
| 22 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 23 | The decision also made possible the publication of other Cabinet recollections , particularly by Barbara Castle and Tony Benn . |
| 24 | In addition to the influence of Solesmes Abbey , there was the scholarship of men such as Briggs , Frere , Palmer and Arnold , reflected in the publications of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage which made possible the recovery of plainsong for English congregations , parochial as well as religious . |
| 25 | His physical departure made possible the coming of the Spirit as Paraclete and there would be no barriers of space and time to prevent disciples being in intimate contact with him . |
| 26 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 27 | The very centrality of the aristocracy and its culture in Vienna , however , made possible the restabilization of bürgerliche culture , partly through the integration of a substantial element of aestheticist aristocratic culture into the bourgeois habitus . |
| 28 | Through the greater part of Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous times , what is now northern Europe experienced a remarkably uneventful history that made possible the gentle ( if spasmodic ) accumulation of sediment and the slow evolution of organisms which led to the growth of the science of stratigraphical palaeontology in these strata . |
| 29 | In spite of the profound dissimilarities between father and son , and the bitter personal conflicts between them , Frederick II remained always the executor of Frederick William I. ‘ Only his care , ’ he wrote of his father , ‘ his untiring work , his scrupulously just policies , his great and admirable thriftiness and the strict discipline he introduced into the army which he himself had created , made possible the achievements I have so far accomplished . ’ |
| 30 | On July 22 the Constitutional Court , by cancelling two items from the country 's controversial anti-terrorist law , made possible the future conditional release of about 1,000 political prisoners . |