Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding makes it possible to identify with some degree of certainty those students who are unlikely to graduate , and thereby allow the necessary resources to be targeted on these potential non-graduates . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the availability of incidence information , a longitudinal study makes it possible to see if certain events regularly precede others , e.g. ‘ Do people with a certain laboratory report consistently develop liver disease ? ’ |
| 3 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the very low variability in ratings on this scale makes it possible that the task was not successful in measuring this . |
| 5 | This sectoral approach makes it possible to take into account the redistribution of IT production activities between firms that may cut across existing industrial categories ( eg between manufacture and scientific services ) and its human resource implications . |
| 6 | But this growth makes it possible to obtain an additional supply of goods . |
| 7 | This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams . |
| 8 | This classification makes it possible , for instance , for the analyst to use individual customer lists and market research survey data to identify the types of neighbourhood with the heaviest consumption of a particular product or service . |
| 9 | The practice can occur in actual business meetings where they set aside some time to make it possible to reflect on their actions and to correct them . |
| 10 | It has already been noted that interactions between infant and adult lead to the development of pre-verbal communicative exchanges in which adult and child are able to refer to objects and events ; successful joint reference makes it possible for these external objects and events to become ‘ topics ’ for further exchanges . |
| 11 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the fact that senior commanders of such stature feel it possible to question something which , until now , has been an unchallenged assumption , should give the Government cause for concern . |
| 13 | These advantages make it possible for the miners to produce a high output , of about 3 tonnes per man per shift . |
| 14 | The small number of cells involved , and their unique appearance make it possible to study the complete developmental history of a single cell — something that is not yet technically feasible in vertebrates . |
| 15 | The way in which the film provokes these questions makes it possible , even today , to understand why this film was such a hit , selling 385 prints at £10 apiece . |
| 16 | In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material . |
| 17 | Genetic engineering makes it possible to join the promoter of one gene to that of another . |
| 18 | Genetic engineering makes it possible to cut and splice DNA . |
| 19 | This snapshot of the corporate environment makes it possible to analyse the way in which such organisations approach the management of information resources . |
| 20 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 21 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 22 | The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door . |
| 23 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |
| 24 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 25 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 26 | Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure . |
| 27 | Developments in stand-alone integrated systems made it possible to streamline the library 's data processing operations . |
| 28 | The growing volume of eye-witness accounts emerging from the firmly sealed region make it possible to gain a clearer picture of how the protests grew . |
| 29 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 30 | Advance planning makes it possible to write the essay in sections and put the sections together only at the end — with the result that you do not have to write the sections in the order in which they will finally appear . |