Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 2 | He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage . |
| 3 | But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections . |
| 4 | When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up . |
| 5 | Although GEMMs in the aggregate made substantial losses during the years 1987 – 89 , the market as a whole became profitable in 1990 and remained so in 1991 . |
| 6 | George Birkitt got lazy about learning his lines too . |
| 7 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 8 | He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper . |
| 9 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 10 | Eventually , when they were in Canada , in the fifth month of the picture , Dustin got friendly with an Oriental man who claimed to be 104 years old . |
| 11 | In his portrayed public image , Hitler was able to offer a positive pole in the Third Reich , transcending sectional interests and grievances through the overriding ideal of national unity , made possible through his necessary aloofness from the ‘ conflict sphere ’ of daily politics , separating him from the more unpopular aspects of Nazism . |
| 12 | Where modernist organization was premised on technological determinism , postmodernist organization is premised on technological choices made possible through ‘ de-dedicated ’ microelectronic equipment . |
| 13 | This is encouraged and made possible through an international network . |
| 14 | He , he made possible for , for a resurrection |
| 15 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 16 | Rural areas and subsistence-level farmers were neglected or actually excluded from the benefits which copper exports made possible in terms of schools , health facilities , agricultural inputs and credit ( Bwayla 1980 , Klepper 1980 , 1981 , ODG 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 18 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 19 | Successive reforms failed to end patronage and to establish the sort of professional , rationally organized state bureaucracy loyal to the notion of public service that the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms made possible in Britain . |
| 20 | This complementarity was , of course , developed through the massive emigration which the Trans-Siberian made possible from European Russia . |
| 21 | One is faced here with the blind spot of the dominant form of Irish nationalism , already so apparent in the preamble to the constitution itself , a blindness made possible by the ideological differentiation of state and religion combined with the ideological unity of the people , seen at once as both nation and catholic . |
| 22 | It is , nevertheless , interesting that Norris should say , in passing , of Nietzsche ; ‘ there are many competing versions of Nietzsche , none possessing any absolute claim to articulate the ‘ truth' ’ of his text , but all of them — and this is Derrida 's point — made possible by something in the logic , the syntax or the structural resources of his writing . ’ |
| 23 | Proper regulation of banks , together with the generally lower interest rates made possible by a stable currency , also reduced worries about the property market . |
| 24 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 25 | More significant though was a displacement into , a condensation within , the homosexual of a whole range of political fears and anxieties made possible by existing and long established representations of homosexuality : |
| 26 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 27 | ‘ Our best developed areas are those which deal with the elaboration of motor skills made possible by our hands , while cetaceans seem to concentrate on areas of social perception . |
| 28 | But operating margins widened from 6.6 p.c. to 7.1 p.c. as the group strove to raise efficiency through initiatives such as wastage reduction and automatic re-ordering , made possible by the growth of scanning at checkouts . |
| 29 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 30 | The 1921 accounts showed a surplus of £16 2s. 2d. , made possible by the bondholders again waiving their interest payments . |