Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a way of life based on constant leisure made possible by the constant labour of other classes and enslaved peoples . |
| 8 | The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) . |
| 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 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 11 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 12 | Eventually he became depressed by the sheer difficulty of his subject , by the realization that he was not , as he put it , going to be able to build a cathedral . |
| 13 | The youngest of a large family , who lived right in the book-printing district with Morrison & Gibb , Clark 's and Neill 's within walking distance , she had two elder sisters already in the trade . |
| 14 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 15 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 16 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 17 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 18 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 19 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 20 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 21 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 22 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 23 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 24 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 25 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 26 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 27 | There were few opportunities for attending concerts but passers-by became used to the familiar sound of Mozart 's " Jupiter " symphony or Handel 's water music floating from Eva 's house in the lunchtime break . |
| 28 | It had Breton blood but , like the Breton , was heavily crossed with the Friesian and became extinct by the 1960s . |
| 29 | Yet in Ireland the Kerry almost became extinct by the early 1980s , and in 1983 the total world population of pedigree cows was only 200 . |
| 30 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |