Example sentences of "so [that] [pron] could be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 2 | He saw the tatty rooms , the junk-shop furniture … hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through , so that we could be together again . |
| 3 | Individual elements in the building complex were designed so that they could be separately defended if the outer defences fell . |
| 4 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will wish the inquiry to investigate how numerous complaints came to be disregarded , how Mr. Frank Beck was able to simply resign , why the police were never informed of the complaints so that they could be fully investigated at the time , why Mr. Frank Beck , having resigned voluntarily after numerous complaints , was given a reference , why there was not even a report into the then Department of Health and Social Security , and why the inquiries by Brent therefore proved negative . |
| 5 | He proposed full " tariffication " , a system ( advocated by the USA ) under which all import restraints , such as quotas , would be converted to tariffs so that they could be systematically reduced . |
| 6 | Trees which had been hacked and chopped and mutilated , which had had branches torn away so that they could be roughly stacked against the wall . |
| 7 | Cardinal Lercaro , one of the moderators , stressed the need for greater speed on the part of the commissions , reminding them — an indirect but clear reference to the Theological Commission — that it was not their task to decide disputed issues by presenting for discussion one straightforward text , but to evaluate and organize amendments so that they could be more easily decided in the Council Hall . |
| 8 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 9 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 10 | Buried in a box in the ground , the find was kept secret so that it could be properly excavated by Suffolk County 's archaeological department , headed by Judith Plouviez , the County Archaeology Officer . |
| 11 | The growing use of electrical power made some form of metering essential , so that it could be properly charged for , and Forbes was one of several who invented instruments for this purpose , though his was never widely adopted . |
| 12 | Who put the corpse into the water in Chichester Harbour so that it could be so conveniently found ? |