Example sentences of "[adv] that they could be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation .
2 Faraday had written in the 1820s that it was a good idea to have the same pitch on various bits of apparatus , so that they could be connected together in different ways ; but this idea had not become general .
3 The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces .
4 The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless .
5 It had eventually been decided to limit the statements to accounts of atrocities alleged to have been committed only between June and August 1944 , so that they could be tied precisely to Kesselring 's orders .
6 Parin nodded , and he signed to his assistants to roll up the books so that they could be packed away in the boxes and chests in which they were stored .
7 On Nov. 18 , the Supreme Court voted by seven to two not to overturn the restraining order , and CNN then turned over the tapes so that they could be examined by Hoeveler .
8 Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom .
9 They gave up other rings and wore iron ones in public so that they could be seen to have done their duty , which was what really mattered .
10 Following the sale of the cargo and the payment of the net proceeds , U.S.$2,353,991.95 , into court , nothing further was done in the action until 16 January 1992 when Crossman Block issued a summons as ‘ solicitors for the Republic of Somalia ’ applying that the Republic of Somalia be joined as a party to the action , that the buyers of the cargo be also joined , presumably so that they could be bound by any decision of the court , and that
11 The Embassy was trying to have the bodies released so that they could be flown back to England for burial .
12 As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense .
13 Roy had asked that the boards be numbered , so that they could be erected in sequence .
14 Support personnel worked in areas adjacent to the production floor , so that they could be contacted instantly when required , and through constant contact keep up to date with the processes which they served .
15 The structure of the ‘ curriculum for all ’ rests fundamentally on the Conservative government 's intention to locate children in standardised hierarchies of achievement in each subject throughout their school career , so that they could be compared to each other , their teachers ' performance compared to that of other teachers and their schools ' standards set against their competitors in the marketplace .
16 Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again .
17 The whole room breathed an air of hygienic efficiency : the walls were emulsioned so that they could be repainted at little cost , and the tables stood on plastic tiles which could be quickly wiped and disinfected .
18 He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around .
19 We cadets spent that morning sewing shackles into confidential documents , so that they could be thrown over the side if anything untoward happened .
20 In Italy money used to be paid for crickets so that they could be released in the garden to add their harmony and endless cheerfulness to it .
21 The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking .
22 As reconditioned they had new B.T-H. 509c motors and line switch attachments fitted to the controllers so that they could be used interlocked with air brakes .
23 In April and June 1927 , Nos. 36 and 38 were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes acting on the wheels and on the track so that they could be used on the Thornton Heath route and run in conjunction with the bogie cars that were being similarly equipped .
24 The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials .
25 More changes in 1981 were designed to facilitate further the procedures so that they could be used by the general public , making arbitration the normal method of settling disputes where the amount of the claim was less than £500 , amending the ‘ no costs ’ rule and amending the terms of reference for the conduct of arbitration .
26 When a small boy , I felt sorry for their horses , which were always black in colour , so that they could be put to use for funerals .
27 After much debate it seems that these were built for rabbits to live and breed in so that they could be caught for meat and fur .
28 He knew very little about tests done on blood from bones , only that they could be carried out .
29 In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently .
30 In most of the provinces … the natives used to copy one another so effectively that they could be looked upon as all identical …
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