Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in order " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the positive benefits that most had derived from their investment , few were willing to borrow in order to expand their use . |
| 2 | Exactly how far civil servants are prepared to go in order to thwart ministers is a matter of some controversy . |
| 3 | Love You and your partner face new challenges in your relationship — use them as a way of finding out just how deep your feelings are for each other , and how much you are prepared to sacrifice in order to make it work . |
| 4 | The killings were reported to be part of a private hospital war in Marseilles in which surgeons and speculators appeared to be prepared to kill in order to gain control of private clinics . |
| 5 | The offeror should be clear as to what minimum percentage of the target 's share capital it is willing to accept in order to meet its key objectives . |
| 6 | The former are disposed to combine in order to raise , the latter in order to lower the price of labour . |
| 7 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 8 | To the French it seemed as if there were no limit to the amount of men and shells the enemy was prepared to expend in order to gain possession of this one desolate hill . |
| 9 | After the Falklands war , one could observe what great efforts relatives of soldiers and sailors killed there were prepared to make in order to visit their graves , and so keep memory alive . |
| 10 | Large third-world cities are particularly at risk , as the depletion of groundwater reserves is likely to accelerate in order to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population . |
| 11 | ‘ The individual worker needs to be able to plan in order to work away at meeting them , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Resources which are willing and able to work in order to raise the rate of output and to boost living standards are failing to be employed . |
| 13 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 14 | Invite as many different spellings as possible as a spoken nonsense word : discuss the suggested spellings , decide which are the most likely , and make lists of real words which fit the pattern , e.g. Games like these demonstrate to children the relationship between sound and symbol which it is fundamental to understand in order to become a competent speller . |
| 15 | The documentarists were natural allies of the government , well practised in tailoring their own ideas to the demands of their sponsors , and exploring ideas about British character that it had become important to validate in order to distinguish the natives from their foes . |
| 16 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 17 | This is what the evidence suggests since , while the tempo of mergers and acquisitions ( both domestic and cross-border ) has been rising rapidly , it is also apparent that some industries have been engaged in divesting themselves of activities which are peripheral or difficult to manage in order to concentrate on areas of strength . |
| 18 | It seems to be one thing ( and a wrong thing by the Bill of Rights ) , to impeach or question proceedings in Parliament ; it seems to be quite another to ask a House to confirm whatever it is necessary to confirm in order to ascertain what the House has resolved . |
| 19 | Some families are reluctant to send children to these schools and other children are obliged to work in order to help support their families . |
| 20 | The material is discussed and analysed in order to identify what it is necessary to know in order to solve the problem , and hence manage patient care . |
| 21 | As to what Parliament so prescribes , one must look to the Act delegating the power to legislate in order to discover what conditions it is necessary to fulfil in order for the instrument in question to acquire validity . |
| 22 | In answer to a common question from those about to embark on the F-Plan : No , it is not necessary to exercise in order to shed weight . |
| 23 | It was therefore important for him to be well informed about events in his own country and in the political world generally ; and ambassadors sometimes asked in their despatches for news which they could trade with their colleagues from other states since , as one of them told the French foreign minister in 1674 , " You know that in [ diplomacy ] as in other ordinary transactions it is necessary to give in order to receive " . |
| 24 | Teachers have to struggle to break down a pupil 's conceptions of what is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ lovely ’ and nice to watch in order to release the real potential . |
| 25 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 26 | They can then obtain the necessary information for their Doppler calculations , by monitoring the pitch at which they are obliged to hoot in order to achieve the fixed-pitch echo . |
| 27 | ‘ To this it may be objected that although it is necessary to tax in order to wage war , it is not necessary for the Executive to tax without a statute . |
| 28 | The number of miles that it is necessary to travel in order to accomplish this are simply phenomenal . |
| 29 | Right from the beginning of that terrible saga , I have been absolutely determined that the United Nations and any other body that it may be necessary to involve in order to get to the bottom of this and to resolve matters for the people of East Timor — they have gone on since 1975 — should have our support . |
| 30 | If we reclassify companies as social enterprises such issues are then not only matters of legitimate public concern about which the public has a right to information , but also matters in which the state is entitled to intervene in order to safeguard the public interest and to ensure compliance with publicly acceptable ethical standards . |