Example sentences of "order [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like other teachers at Dovercourt , Howard Franks was under orders to curb the romantic inclinations of their wards . |
| 2 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 3 | It is looking desperately for overseas orders to bolster a declining workload in the UK . |
| 4 | The world of learning , fired by the tension between the intellectual arguments of scholasticism and the more experiential piety of the monastic orders given a powerful voice by such men as Bernard of Clairvaux and Hugo and Richard of St Victor , was preoccupied with the relationship between the operations of reason and faith and a growing tendency to see them as distinct rather than complementary experiences , a climate of thought favourable to mystical theology . |
| 5 | This ruling was itself overturned in 1990 , after which environmentalists won court orders halting the logging on the basis of its threat to the habitat of endangered species , notably the spotted owl [ see ED 52 ] . |
| 6 | They had orders to search every village in the area , but they did n't take anything . |
| 7 | Increasing talk of Community Supervision Orders make a travesty of community care unless such orders are made in the context of good quality accommodation and a properly funded benefits system . |
| 8 | Nizar Hamdoon , the Iraqi envoy to the United Nations , denied the pilot was under deliberate orders to provoke an attack . |
| 9 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |
| 10 | PLANS to build the long-awaited Kesgrave bypass at an estimated cost of more than £9 million are about to take a major step forward with publication of a series of compulsory orders to obtain the necessary land . |
| 11 | This helps us understand the orders to destroy the Canaanite nations at the conquest . |
| 12 | Export orders showed a substantial improvement on January , suggesting sterling 's devaluation may now be helping to raise demand from foreign customers . |
| 13 | The elite KGB Alpha anti-terrorist group had refused to obey orders to storm the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
| 14 | The applicant sought a declaration and/or prerogative orders to identify the lawful decisions and correct any unlawful decisions . |
| 15 | The relief sought is declarations or prerogative orders to identify the lawful decisions and correct the unlawful decisions . |
| 16 | As the minister said these orders impose a new statutory duty on auditors and as he quite rightly reminded us , it is something that er we welcomed when we held the debate on the Bingham report in November nineteen ninety two , some fifteen months ago , er , I think it is fair to say that whilst we welcomed that recommendation from Bingham , we did n't say that was all that was required and it is certainly our view that whilst these orders are very welcome , they are only a start in the battle against detecting fraud and other crimes of dishonesty . |
| 17 | The Iraqi government on Sept. 1 reinforced its orders directing the air force to keep away from the air exclusion zone enforced by the Western allies south of the 32nd parallel [ see p. 39069 ] , and instructed ground forces not to fire at Western aircraft . |
| 18 | Hill shrugged aside suggestions that he will be asked to obey team orders to help the Frenchman clinch his fourth world drivers ' crown , with Prost needing to either win or finish two points clear of Ayrton Senna . |
| 19 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 20 | On his arrival Jones received new , and even more congenial orders to use the Ranger ‘ In the manner you shall judge best for distressing the enemies of the United States ’ . |
| 21 | Closely associated with Mareva injunctions , and of direct relevance to the subject-matter of the present work , are orders requiring a defendant to disclose the whereabouts of his assets . |
| 22 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 23 | Intel also said that record first-quarter orders indicate a positive outlook for second-quarter growth . |
| 24 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 25 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 26 | In some of the photographs , the Turks who had helped to carry out their government 's orders to liquidate the Armenians are standing beside the corpses , grinning into the camera . |
| 27 | Donors have got their money 's worth in the relatively simple transactions of giving aid , and making sure that their own firms got the orders to build the dams . |
| 28 | Jonathan Barnicoat and Kip Bertram have been extremely helpful to us , and our customers are always impressed when their orders arrive the next day . ’ |
| 29 | Both orders allow a certain number of new conditions to be imposed , again with reduced compensation being payable . |
| 30 | Standing orders allow the Speaker ( or , in committee , the chairman ) to propose the selection of specific amendments and the rejection of others for debate , to this end . |