Example sentences of "order [to-vb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 2 | On April 3 , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , said during an interview with the BBC that " I do n't think we can get into the business of using force … in order to impose a particular political answer on Iraq " . |
| 3 | This argument overlooks a feature of addictive disease that is often overlooked by those who currently advocate substitution with medically prescribed drugs : the addict will commonly take the prescribed drug and an additional illegal drug or may sell the prescribed drug in order to obtain a preferred illegal drug . |
| 4 | The Privy Council , however , reconvened Parliament for an emergency session on Feb. 18 and pushed through amendments to the Nationality Act , the Passport Act and the Constitution itself , in order to provide a retroactive legal basis for the sale ; denied its legal foundation , the court case was dismissed . |
| 5 | The CNAA announced that its policy of requiring the inclusion of complementary or contrasting studies in courses in order to provide a balanced educational experience had been ‘ under review ’ , and that changes would shortly be announced intended to respond to recent developments in the colleges and allow greater flexibility . |
| 6 | General property audit — collates information on a building or property portfolio in order to establish a long-term strategic plan . |
| 7 | However we feel that it is important that each type of service debates the issues fully , in order to reach a realistic agreed policy , which also fits in with the policies of other local services . |
| 8 | The particles of some solids do not possess sufficient order to define a regular crystalline structure . |
| 9 | It received a new boost in 1990 when John Gribbin and Martin Rees published their The Stuff of the Universe , where it was asserted that the universe came into existence solely in order to create a carbon-based intelligent life-form on just one planet — Earth . |
| 10 | In 1985 , Lord Cockfield , the British Commissioner , put forward a detailed white paper to abolish physical , technical and fiscal barriers in order to create a single integrated market throughout the twelve member states . |
| 11 | This conclusion , in order to create a single comprehensive offence in place of larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion , makes ‘ appropriation ’ ( the treating of ‘ tuum ’ as ‘ meum ’ ) the key element in place of taking , and it is the activity expressed by the word ‘ appropriation ’ which dispenses with the need for the phrase ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ which preceded the words ‘ takes and carries away ’ in the old definition of larceny in section 1(1) of the Act of 1916 . |
| 12 | A much greater issue for the UK is how to get innovation and existing technology into the small and medium sized enterprises ( SMEs ) in order to create a growing economic base . |
| 13 | Is this in order to create a different harmonic point of reference ? |
| 14 | During the takeover battle , it was suggested that Cadbury Schweppes should act as a white knight to Rowntree , in order to form a strong British company able to compete effectively with the Swiss . |
| 15 | Like the horn and trumpet it is furnished with valves , but has four of these instead of three in order to give a complete chromatic scale from its fundamental note . |
| 16 | In addition , all specimens were stained with Sirius red F3BA in order to do a quantitative morphometric analysis of the reticulin collapse by means of an automatic image quantifier ( Ramtek-9351 ) , as previously described . |
| 17 | With some plain fabrics , all drops will need to be cut in the same direction in order to match a pronounced woven design , or to ensure that fabrics with a high sheen catch the light evenly . |
| 18 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 19 | Many words and phrases have a technical legal meaning , and it is quite proper , and often necessary , to use such language in order to convey a precise legal meaning : for instance , the drafter may deliberately refer to the requirement that the goods be " merchantable " , because that word is used in the SGA , even though it is not in common use . |
| 20 | Thus , as Kelsen observes , ‘ the legal norm obliges the debtor not only , and , perhaps , not so much in order to protect the creditor , but in order to maintain a certain economic system . ’ |
| 21 | In a long and bitter attack on the political system in Germany , one commentator has drawn attention to the questionable practices which arise from a system in which parties are subsidised by the state , a practice justified by the need to have strong parties in order to maintain a healthy political culture : |
| 22 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in order to achieve a successful European presence it is vital to ensure that appropriate modes of alliance are correctly identified at the outset . |
| 24 | Thus it was possible for engineers to place their microphone to give a ratio of direct and reflected sound from the walls of the studio in order to achieve a pleasing artistic reproduction . |
| 25 | The Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( 1976 ) argued that in order to achieve a vital local democracy , a larger share of the revenue of local authorities must be raised locally , thus enhancing local accountability . |
| 26 | Certainly , speakers are free to select from a wide range of surface forms in order to achieve a particular communicative purpose , and it is quite likely that they will do so to attain appropriate levels of politeness , solidarity or social distance . |
| 27 | But it is a start that plays down the complications of learning about gender and discrimination outside the family , in order to produce a viable psychological theory . |
| 28 | All we need , in order to make a good indirect observation of something , is a learnable correlation between it and something else which we can observe directly . |
| 29 | You will need support from a trained counsellor at either a voluntary organisation like The Terrence Higgins Trust or a sexually transmitted disease clinic , in order to make a good informed decision . |