Example sentences of "order [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved . |
| 2 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 3 | The challenge to the traditional social order manifested itself in a struggle for the control of science , and historians have begun to recognize how this struggle shaped the development of scientific institutions . |
| 4 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 5 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 6 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 7 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 8 | All gods made their boast in him , in order to magnify themselves with his beauty , for he is so divine … |
| 9 | Tony himself suggested attending at different times each week in order to familiarize himself with different subject areas of the curriculum . |
| 10 | As I seem to have missed any further pronouncements from this source on this topic , I would be very interested to hear if anyone can shed any light on any recent attempts that the Catholic Church may have made in order to extricate themselves from a presumably somewhat embarrassing position . |
| 11 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 12 | Furthermore , in order to organise yourself for leisure , you need to be reasonably sure , and to accept the fact that you will be unemployed long enough to make organising something worthwhile . |
| 13 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 14 | Fans dress carefully in order to identify themselves within their group . |
| 15 | identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess . |
| 16 | Thus we have the paradox that in order to give oneself over to believing in the fiction , one 's ‘ non-belief ’ has to be secured . |
| 17 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |
| 18 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 19 | The Tsars , the Habsburgs and the Ottomans sought to rationalize and industrialize their ramshackle empires in order to protect themselves against the expansionism of the modern West European State . |
| 20 | In order to protect themselves against employees accepting terms put forward by trading partners , many businesses include an express provision in their terms of trading limiting the authority of their agents and employees . |
| 21 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 22 | Movement can also be limited by the body in order to protect itself from further harm , e.g. the pain from a twisted ankle prevents mobility , thus allowing the inflamed tissues to rest and heal . |
| 23 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 24 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 25 | The Ego does charitable work in order to pat itself on the back , and feel self-righteous — not from a sense of love and concern . |
| 26 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 27 | it is also a good idea to attend one or two auctions — in order to acquaint yourself with the atmosphere , procedure and prices — prior to entering a serious bid . |
| 28 | His first book appeared in New York in 1920 , The Story of Doctor Dolittle , an account of the gently eccentric John Dolittle who gives up his medical practice in order to devote himself to treating animals , learning all their various languages with the help of Polynesia , his sage and authoritative parrot . |
| 29 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 30 | The Labour Party , in order to distance itself from its estranged and inconsistent creator , shrouded his name and reputation with invective . |