Example sentences of "[prep] order [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 2 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |
| 3 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 4 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 5 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |