Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great success of the Junior School prompted the Governors to set up a Preparatory Department so that boys could be admitted at the age of 5 . |
| 2 | The treasurer felt it would be advantageous to have the addresses of those in charge of the regular activities using the hall so that accounts could be sent out . |
| 3 | This allowed immediate access to the data base so that reports could be produced rapidly and questions could be answered quickly , thus providing a stimulus to further analysis . |
| 4 | These could be connected with the telegraph wires alongside the track , so that communication could be established as necessary with the nearest signal-box or with central control . |
| 5 | In 1918 she wrote on ways of improving housing and housekeeping so that women could be freed for employment . |
| 6 | The team had already identified the capability of the switchboard equipment itself as a major cause of delays and one recommendation was that Direct Dial In [ DDI ] facilities should be installed so that calls could be dialled direct to specific people , by-passing the switchboard . |
| 7 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman will recall that , on some exceptional days , schools were closed so that teachers could be trained . |
| 9 | This was achieved by delivering small 48 l ( Frigidaire , FV 602 ) freezers to the homes of the participants so that stools could be frozen immediately at -22°C . |
| 10 | Before Mr Stewart was charged , there was a tacit agreement that pilots could admit flying problems in private so that others could be warned in time to avoid disaster . |
| 11 | Teachers were also asked to give their names so that non-respondents could be followed up . |
| 12 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 13 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 14 | The respiratory system had been modified , so that air could be breathed in through the nose , as customary , but out through apertures behind the ears . |
| 15 | The six-storey warehouses were designed by Telford to stand by the water 's edge so that goods could be moved by crane straight from ship to warehouse without the double handling usual in docks of the time . |
| 16 | Both windmills and watermills were built taller or larger to accommodate additional machinery and grain storage space , and an extra floor was often provided above the rest of the accommodation so that grain could be emptied into bulk storage bins and led through spouts to millstones as required . |
| 17 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 18 | Proceedings were adjourned until July 11 , so that witnesses could be called , but the justices sitting on that date concluded that they had no power to consider the case afresh and proceeded to sentence . |
| 19 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 20 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 21 | The issue of cost was to be tackled head-on in this research programme , so that guidance could be offered on the cost-effectiveness of a variety of approaches to a variety of local circumstances . |
| 22 | so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies . |
| 23 | Lexandro imagined his whole skeleton being presented to his enemy so that execrations could be carved upon Lexandro 's bones , anathemas and runes of excommunication whereby his spirit would writhe forever — if a spirit there be — eternally separated from Rogal Dorn … |
| 24 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 25 | The case was adjourned to a date to be fixed so that Bourgois could be remanded to hospital to be further assessed . |
| 26 | Schools were given pin numbers so that results could be phoned through to Newsround Results Hotline . |
| 27 | The survey was repeated in November 1991 so that comparison could be made between summer and autumn attendance . |
| 28 | The method , however , lacks flexibility , and for an apparatus this size it was essential to have an independent power source so that adjustments could be carried out in the event of failure . |
| 29 | What would be more relevant , and what was sometimes commented on , was the need to develop and produce training that would require possibly less money directly spent and/or less time away from service points , so that needs could be met , perhaps more effectively , within existing constraints and resources . |
| 30 | The advisers attached particular importance to the feedback sessions so that recommendations could be acted on without the delay anticipated in the production of the final report . |