Example sentences of "[that] it could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 2 | There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next . |
| 3 | so that it could be sent to the folks in Inverness |
| 4 | Or even that it could be transferred to your ownership . ’ |
| 5 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |
| 6 | Grace 's mast was fifteen foot of blackened pine , fitted into a tabernacle , so that it could be lowered to the deck in the days when Grace negotiated the twenty-eight tideway bridges between Richmond and the sea . |
| 7 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |