Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This complementarity was , of course , developed through the massive emigration which the Trans-Siberian made possible from European Russia .
2 First , as economies grow , rising productivity levels made possible by technological advances allow workers to pass into the next sector .
3 Other therapeutic optins made possible by percutaneous puncture of the gall bladder include contact dissolution of gall stones with solvents and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy .
4 And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression .
5 Earls Court made a successful return to hosting seated events last year , in a move made possible by new developments in demountable seating and the speed with which they can be constructed and dismantled .
6 Causality irrespective , we argue that many of the competitive innovations made possible by new technology could not be realised in corporate strategy without the simultaneous changes in finance .
7 Will the surveillance made possible by modern information technology only apply at the frontiers , or shall we have to live with it in our daily lives ?
8 The most humane and ecologically sound management policies , made possible by constant inputs of money from the south , combine elements of Inuit culture with the elements of southern life that are most useful to them .
9 ‘ The Flying Falcons , ’ bellowed the Chairman , as the stage became alive with muscular men leaping and somersaulting .
10 The problem was solved and reliable set-up and running became possible by minor changes to the program , including relaxation of the consistency checks .
11 Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all .
12 Branson was not able to inspire the same sense of esprit de corps among the hastily assembled team of Event journalists as he had always done among the staff at Virgin , and the magazine quickly became rife with internecine dispute and conspiracy theories .
13 Special radiator foils sold complete with self-adhesive pads are better .
14 It became extinct over large areas of North-West Scotland , including Lewis and Skye , between 4300 — 3900 B.P. ( see Birks , 1977 ; Bennett , 1984 ) .
15 Born with normal hearing , he became deaf from scarlet fever when 12 years old .
16 It is enthusiastically fuelled by the advertisers and made respectable by successive governments of all countries who make consumerism into a summum bonum .
17 Edward Cheyney soon became friendly with British residents and regular visitors to Rome , and was welcomed in the great Roman houses .
18 James — ‘ Deaf ’ Burke , or the ‘ Deaf 'Un ’ as he was generally known was born in Westminster , London on 8th December 1809 , and became orphaned in early childhood .
19 I first became interested in alternative medicine and therapies because of the interest shown by Christians and others in Aromatherapy .
20 In other words , the Conservative party , and its propertied core constituency , became interested in new forms of appeal and organization when it became apparent that the political reliability and social stability of the lower orders could no longer be ensured by traditional methods of social and political control .
21 Some devoted themselves solely to classification , although others became interested in geographical problems and in the relationship between species and their environments .
22 It was during her time at Clandon that Lady Onslow first became interested in voluntary work .
23 More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety .
24 I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’
25 What is , I mean what is being discussed it seems to me is , is a , is a dilemma that has been debated ever since people became interested in social change ,
26 This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years .
27 He also became interested in Persian literature and began to study the language , intending to translate the poetry of Hafez .
28 LADY Arran , a 71-year-old countess with a penchant for speed , put Britain back in the record books yesterday with a storming run in a hydroplane that made light of choppy conditions at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont , Nottingham .
29 STUDENTS made light of physical disabilities to abseil down a viaduct yesterday .
30 A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured .
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