Example sentences of "order [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As we have indicated , there can be problems in attempting to extract a single institution or rule from a national industrial relations system in order to compare it with what happens elsewhere since |
2 | If an object is annexed to land in order to enjoy it as a chattel ( eg a carpet nailed to the floor ) it will not become a fixture but will remain a chattel . |
3 | There were reports in September that the government 's Commission for Financial and Legal Control and for Combating Corruption , chaired by Mikhail Gurtovoi , was investigating massive illegal exports of oil by Russian commercial businesses which , by bribing producers , were able to buy oil cheaply in order to resell it at profit . |
4 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
5 | The Eastern fathers , and many of the earliest Western theologians , tended to see the atonement in terms of what is known as the ‘ physical ’ theory : God enters into sinful humanity in order to restore it from within . |
6 | In us , each side has an area of about one square foot , so the crinkled appearance results from the need to crumple the sheet like a piece of paper in order to accommodate it within the skull . |
7 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
8 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
9 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
10 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
11 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
12 | The running yield is given by dividing the coupon by current market price and then multiplying the result by 100 in order to express it as a percentage . |
13 | The TBC 's drive for increased revenue from commercial sources in order to free it from its dependence on government raised serious questions about the role of broadcasting . |
14 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
15 | Knowledge of this fact being the result of the finding , the to infinitive is required in order to evoke it in the subsequence of the event of discovering denoted by the main verb . |
16 | While the lull in the firing persisted , the Magistrate ordered earth to be thrown over the rotting mountain of offal in order to cover it like the crust of a pie . |
17 | Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner . |
18 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
19 | ( If your luff is indeed flapping you need to pull the sail towards you in order to fill it with wind . ) |
20 | The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another . |
21 | The piece of stone or the log of wood selected is treated in an elaborate manner in order to divest it of its inert nature and to infuse into it the power to contain the divine image . |
22 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
23 | But first the causes of the Famine should be given in order to put it in perspective . |
24 | If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print . |
25 | Cells work to keep calcium at vanishingly low internal concentrations , in order to use it for signalling . |
26 | The first of the three lamps is referred to as the backlight , and its function is to provide a rim of light from behind the subject in order to separate it from the background . |
27 | Varnishing is the final application of a varnish which is applied to a finished painting in order to protect it from pollution . |
28 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
29 | But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay . |
30 | The Nepalese rupee was devalued against the US dollar by 20.96 per cent in two moves on July 2 and 3 in order to keep it in line with the recently devalued India rupee [ see p. 38334 ] . |