Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage . |
| 2 | When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up . |
| 3 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 4 | He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Western Europe began to show signs of real recovery during 1948 , made possible by the proper application of the benefits of ‘ Marshall Aid ’ . |
| 10 | The 1921 accounts showed a surplus of £16 2s. 2d. , made possible by the bondholders again waiving their interest payments . |
| 11 | The Thirties scene shows the complete segregation of the tram track , made possible by the Promenade widening of 1905 , with a traditional double-deck Standard and a modern railcoach of the period . |
| 12 | The biblical story is thought to reflect the then recent development of caravan routes , made possible by the domestication of the camel at the end of the first millennium BC . |
| 13 | Although there may have been a trade in illicit cattle across the border between the Dutch and Kandyan territories in the eighteenth century , the large-scale networks were probably a product of the early and middle nineteenth century , made possible by the increased demand for cattle for transportation and meat . |
| 14 | He spent six months in America working in and visiting nurseries and botanical gardens — a trip made possible by the award of the first Bowles Memorial Scholarship by the RHS . |
| 15 | Traditional topics were omitted , supplanted by studies of the form and pattern of settlement , made possible by the great increase in their rate of discovery and excavation during the 1970s . |
| 16 | From Pius IX on , every pope became the centre of a considerable personality cult made possible by the railway and , later on , the modern media . |
| 17 | But so great was the gulf between the righteousness of God and the depravity of man that the hope of salvation , made possible by the obedient and sacrificial death of Christ , was ultimately dependent upon divine rather than human initiatives . |
| 18 | They would maintain that systematic discrimination against blacks , made possible by the power of the dominant stratum , accounts for the system of racial stratification in the USA . |
| 19 | For the present , I would prefer to reformulate Popper 's position on observation statements in a less subjective way , thus : An observation statement is acceptable , tentatively , at a particular stage in the development of a science , if it is able to withstand all the tests made possible by the state of development of the science in question at that stage . |
| 20 | Recorded music has now become a separate expressive form , thanks to a range of studio technologies deriving fundamentally from the ability to edit and amalgamate sounds , made possible by the use of magnetic tape . |
| 21 | The even greater increase in the availability of textuality made possible by the digital revolution , combined with the facilities it allows for altering , merging , and adding to already written texts , presents a related but different set of problems to the novelist . |
| 22 | One of the most important advances , made possible by the move to bigger premises , was the use of reactive , instead of pigment , dyes . |
| 23 | Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing . |
| 24 | It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples . |
| 25 | There are a vast number of potential meanings made possible by the volatility of language . |
| 26 | As the chairman of British Telecom declared in 1982 , the traditional role of telecommunications in voice communication is being rapidly superseded by ‘ information exchange ’ made possible by the merger of computer and communications systems . |
| 27 | The World Bank extended to Iran its first loan since 1978 ( prior to the Iranian revolution ) on March 16 , a loan made possible by the US decision to remain neutral on the matter . |
| 28 | Addressing a rarely convened joint session of the Federal Legislature , made possible by the ending of a two-month opposition boycott in protest against the alleged intimidation of Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) members in Sind , Sharif said that the proposed legislation would consist of two bills , one to amend the Constitution and the other to make the Koran and Sunna ( the practices of the prophet Mohammad ) supreme law . |
| 29 | As a supporter of balanced budgets , however , he insisted that this could be funded from defence cuts made possible by the " peace dividend " , rather than through deficits or higher taxes . |
| 30 | The Amnesty Human Rights Now Tour bore the banner ’ Made possible by the Reebok Foundation ’ . |