Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] order [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These not only sell flights but also juggle capacities and fares in order to squeeze the last cent of revenue out of every aircraft seat . |
| 2 | He sighed deeply : he had insisted upon her accompanying him that day in order to enjoy the last precious hours of her innocence and happiness . |
| 3 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 4 | It would therefore seem an opportune moment for the government to impose stricter regulation and policing of the pharmaceutical/pesticide/herbicide branches of the chemical industry , including a more severe form of export control in order to protect the Third World . |
| 5 | To examine all the relevant ballot papers in order to discover the next available preference ( if any ) that they show would be a task of daunting complexity . |
| 6 | Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only . |