Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A harsh edge can enter into the political discourse of this class , especially when respectability seems to go unrewarded by superiors and unrecognized by supposedly inferiors ( see Garrard , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | By 1870 elementary education was compulsory for all , with low fees made possible by government funding with a school leaving age of 14 . |
| 3 | For instance , the development of a customer level database may be justifiable solely by reductions in debt made possible by customer level performance scoring systems . |
| 4 | Education itself provides enrichment to the lives of individuals in a number of ways and in so doing determines the quality of life made possible by wealth creation . |
| 5 | What this argument did not anticipate was that new , flexible methods of manufacturing made possible by electronics sharply reduced the minimum economies of plant scale . |
| 6 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 7 | French ( Provencal ) and Italian ( Tuscany ) country cooking came back from villa holidays along with strings of rapidly moulding garlic , terracotta floor tiles and peasant-style crocks ; all made possible by Elizabeth David and Terence Conran . |
| 8 | This optimism would be undermined by the Dust-Bowl of the 1930s , which showed that the destruction of the soil made possible by farming would have a permanent effect on the land , just as a follower of Warming 's more materialistic approach might have predicted . |
| 9 | This is partly fuelled by an increased concern by enterprises with their environments , partly by an increase in the volume of potentially relevant information being published , and partly by improvements in the physical communication of information from source to recipient made possible by advances in IT . |
| 10 | In the context of cuts in military expenditure made possible by disarmament in Europe , a Defence Diversification Agency would administer a fund within the defence budget to supplement private resources devoted to diversification , in order to encourage investment in civil manufacturing and the retraining of workers within the defence industry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 13 | They could change the life of an elderly person in a developing country where failing eyesight is a serious problem made acute by disease , poverty and limited healthcare . |
| 14 | But she conveyed an impression of someone much older because her movements were restricted by rheumatism and her limbs made frail by lack of proper nourishment over the years . |
| 15 | Election ‘ 92 : Hens laid low by Radio 4 election pall |
| 16 | And how Landseer became rich by painting nature red in tooth and claw . |
| 17 | Most often it is totally unconscious and goes unrecognized by staff and service users . |
| 18 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | In the case of poetry ( the first preoccupation in Formalist thinking ) it is ordinary , or what the Formalists call practical language that constitutes the main automatized element made strange by art . |
| 20 | The carriers were women chosen to be impregnated , made pregnant by members . |
| 21 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 22 | There is a copy of the Church of Scotland Building Committee schedule which shows that the ground for the church was given free by Charles Morrison with a nominal feu duty . |
| 23 | This is not an aspect of ‘ structuralism ’ made clear by Lévi-Strauss although it is a consequence of one of the features of the method ; the ‘ shift from the study of conscious phenomena ’ to the study of their ‘ unconscious infrastructure ’ ( Lévi-Strauss 1968 : 33 — quoted above ) . |
| 24 | The Small Faces could only really produce themselves , a fact made clear by Billy Nicholls ' dire ‘ Would You Believe ’ , and PP Arnold 's ‘ If You Think You 're Groovy ’ , a great song ruined by cack-handed production . |
| 25 | He had a son , Edmund , who became free by patrimony of the Grocers ' Company in 1758 . |
| 26 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 27 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 28 | Sometimes it has played a pioneering role in bringing about new developments , such as the Renault agreement on the duration of holidays which then became generalised by legislation ( Despax and Rojot , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | It is followed by the anal stage , made popular by reference to ‘ potty-training ’ . |
| 30 | Delays in handling the spillage and the stricken vessel caused the movement of the slick , but it became clear by Jan. 11 that the slick would not actually reach the coastline , largely because of the strength and direction of the prevailing sea currents , and because of the light quality of the oil ( Arabian Light ) . |