Example sentences of "order [to-vb] [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 | They had orders to search every village in the area , but they did n't take anything . |
| 5 | Nizar Hamdoon , the Iraqi envoy to the United Nations , denied the pilot was under deliberate orders to provoke an attack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This helps us understand the orders to destroy the Canaanite nations at the conquest . |
| 9 | The elite KGB Alpha anti-terrorist group had refused to obey orders to storm the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
| 10 | The applicant sought a declaration and/or prerogative orders to identify the lawful decisions and correct any unlawful decisions . |
| 11 | The relief sought is declarations or prerogative orders to identify the lawful decisions and correct the unlawful decisions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The first and most important step , therefore , was to give the orders to ensure a lessening of tension in the neck area so that the normal functioning of the Primary Control could be restored . |
| 19 | ROY KEANE , Nottingham Forest 's reluctant centre half , is under orders to keep the No 5 shirt by manager Brian Clough . |
| 20 | Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital . |
| 21 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 22 | The Peugeot Parts Promise guarantees that the parts the dealer orders to complete a job will be delivered from the company 's central warehouse to any dealer in mainland Britain by 8am the next morning . |
| 23 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 24 | In that year the secretary of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts received a letter from Spencer Perceval the Prime Minster ( who was later to be assassinated by a bankrupt , John Bellingham ) to say that His Majesty had graciously given orders to present The Thatched House Society with £2,000 from his private purse . |
| 25 | Too much decentralised buying by the National Health Service means the service squanders millions by failing to use bulk orders to get the cheapest prices , the National Audit Office claimed . |
| 26 | I have orders to employ the military if necessary , but I must be cautious what I do lest I bring the mob to my house . |
| 27 | Ignoring all orders to stop the tug continued up channel , still under fire from the French cutters . |
| 28 | In January 1953 Holford-Walker , the former Moran Officer , arrived in Kajiado with orders to muster a Masai force for anti-terrorist operations in the Aberdares . |
| 29 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 30 | In consequence , there is always a careful code of practice , elaborated in Force Orders to suit the legalistic need to define . |