Example sentences of "order [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 2 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 3 | We did n't shout loud enough ; those who came left impressed , but kept quiet in order to preserve their own reputations . |
| 4 | He enters into a social contract with other men only in order to preserve his own interest and ( in some versions ) pleasure . |
| 5 | It would seem reasonable to define pain and to measure its intensity in terms of the amount of morphine which a patient freely chooses to take in order to restore his own comfort . |
| 6 | In order to see what such a constraint might mean , we assume that the lump-sum transfers have to be employed in fixed proportions ( ) , and that there is no capital tax . |
| 7 | In order to see what this involves , it is helpful to look closely at Poulantzas ' account of classes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Was it all a stage-managed event by the party leadership in order to distract their own people and foreign observers from the real issues facing China ? |
| 10 | Farm families by contrast increasingly sold off their holdings , in order to secure their own last years and at the same time allow equal treatment of their children . |
| 11 | Shortly after Yeltsin 's resignation Vyacheslav Shostakovsky read an announcement on behalf of a group of prominent Democratic Platform members to the effect that they planned to leave the CPSU in order to found their own party ; apparently this action had been triggered by the retention in the new party rules , approval on July 12 , of democratic centralism and a ban on factions . |
| 12 | After the Second World War there was a strong export trade of beef cattle to Argentina and the Argentinian cattlemen showed a marked preference for smaller , blockier British beef bulls at the annual sales in Britain in order to meet their own requirements for exports to Europe . |
| 13 | In order to find their own identity and to become persons in their own right , many young people feel it necessary to rebel against the attitudes and beliefs of their parents . |
| 14 | In order to establish its own inner world it must dislodge and abolish the surrounding one . |
| 15 | For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities |
| 16 | Again Beth hesitated , thinking it wrong that she should use this lovely girl in order to lessen her own burden . |
| 17 | ‘ Because it seems as though Greg arranged the accident in order to fake his own death . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a corollary to this , there was perhaps the suspicion that some of the opposition to the Bill came from politicians who wanted an alternative press in order to enhance their own political future . |
| 20 | His personal appreciation of Adam 's help , however , did not prevent him from strongly criticizing his cynical principle of teaching , by which ( according to John ) he cultivated an unnecessarily complicated approach to dialectic in order to enhance his own reputation ; and John took care to stress that Adam was not his teacher . |
| 21 | For once she had no need to count up and then across in order to identify her own balcony . |
| 22 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 23 | All six companies use unedited quantitative information ; for example , the annual accounts which can be analysed by the planners themselves in order to form their own opinions . |
| 24 | As Cobbett had noted in 1822 : ‘ Society is in a queer state when the rich think , that they must educate the poor in order to insure their own safety . ’ |
| 25 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |
| 28 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 29 | Over recent months , we have seen good evidence of a Secretary of State who is prepared to overturn independent expert advice in order to satisfy his own prejudices . |
| 30 | For such a one to throw up his job , sell his house and come to Britain with little more than the proceeds of sale in his pocket , in order to start his own business from scratch in an unfamiliar environment , would seem , the height of folly . |