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ЧТОБЫ НЕПОВАДНО БЫЛО (ЧТОБЫ HE БЫЛО ПОВАДНО) (кому) coll these forms only subord clause the main clause indicates how s.o. was or will be punished, or expresses a threat to punish s.o. fixed WO

( s.o. was or will be punished, rebuked etc for some wrongdoing) so that he or another will not commit a similar wrongdoing (again): чтобы (X-y) неповадно было - (in order) to teach X a lesson

as a lesson to X so that X will know better (think twice) next time.

Как известно, наши хозяева умели предсказывать будущее, пользуясь... научными методами, а также действительно действенным методом устрашения и расправы не над виновными или сопротивляющимися, а над кем попало, чтобы другим не было повадно (Мандельштам 2). As we all know, our rulers were able to foretell the future ..with the aid of "scientific principles," and also influenced its course by that most efficient means of intimidation which consists in persecuting not the guilty or the recalcitrant, but anybody who happens to come to hand-just as a lesson to the rest (2a).