Example sentences of "order [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranking the aircraft around in order to spot the rest of the attacking aircraft and determine the damage caused to the target , the Blenheim stayed in the Bremen area for 10 minutes , attracting a great deal of flak and being hit about 20 times . |
| 2 | A special 30-day session of the Diet was convened on Oct. 12 in order to debate the bill which would have allowed the corps to be dispatched to the Gulf . |
| 3 | Permanent support from the group : from the outset , the franchisee receives the backing of the company 's teams who contribute their professional skills and know-how , in order to monitor the franchisee 's progress and advise him on the day to day management of the restaurants . |
| 4 | Committee members were empowered to visit factories , shops and restaurants ( state-run or private ) in order to monitor the delivery and sale of food . |
| 5 | In order to monitor the implementation of the action project plans , a variety of data collection sources were used : study of project records ; regular interviews of the development officers by the research team ; attendance and recording of discussions at project meetings or other occasions ; discussions with other professionals affected by or involved in the implementation of the project . |
| 6 | This poses the threat of a global interest rate war as West Germany , say , matches each rise in American interest rates , in order to support the D-mark and so avoid importing inflation . |
| 7 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 8 | In 1991 , in order to support the price of his company 's shares , Robert Maxwell wrote a large put option in favour of his brokers . |
| 9 | Those offenders taking part in this more intense form of education were also expected to work , not towards a reduction in their sentence , but in order to support the education they were receiving . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be inappropriate to divert scarce funds in order to support the kind of specialised provision which the college would offer , ’ he wrote . |
| 11 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 12 | In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying . |
| 13 | The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them . |
| 14 | Occasionally , as with the case of part-time farms or even some full-time farms , one or more family members may work in a factory or shop in the town in order to support the family farm . |
| 15 | It is not clear whether this will be the final position or , more importantly , whether Sony UK have any firm and considered plans for stimulating disc development among British publishers in order to support the launch . |
| 16 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 17 | Matthew Paris says that he convicted innumerable monks and laymen , nobles and commoners , on a multitude of indictments for breaches of the Forest law , and , in order to enrich the king , imposed such heavy penalties on the offenders that many were flung into prison , many were despoiled of all their goods and were forced to eke out a bare existence in misery , and many others became exiles and wandering beggars . |
| 18 | It was only the unnatural methods they used in order to combat the problem which were wrong . |
| 19 | Mark : In order to combat the spread of AIDS among gay men specifically there 's a need for more communication , and a greater amount of closeness and explicitness about issues between us . |
| 20 | Immediately after the election , however , the party in government will find it necessary and politically safe to raise unemployment in order to combat the inflation that was itself set in train by the politically engineered pre-election boom . |
| 21 | The essence of Buchanan 's position was the belief that US conservatism was isolationist by nature , and that this stance had been abandoned after 1945 only in order to combat the menace of international communism . |
| 22 | It campaigned for free universal state pensions for everyone over the age of 65 , in order to combat the poverty created by the rejection of older workers by employers on the grounds of age . |
| 23 | The problem is that in order to invest the trust assets in gilts it may be necessary to dispose of these and pay capital gains tax . |
| 24 | It stood in front of an old grey cottage which the Molesworths had bought in order to acquire the land whereon they could erect their dream home . |
| 25 | You could say , in a letter , that you strongly support the creation of a route for walkers and cyclists from Bloomiehall Park to Muirwood Road , especially for use by children to get to school , and that to overcome the present impasse , it might be a good idea to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land needed . |
| 26 | In order to plan the route of the path , you should first make a plan of the whole garden , as a badly positioned path can spoil the appearance of the garden , however carefully the ground on either side is laid out . |
| 27 | In order to plan the programme for Q.T. training 1981/2 and help various working parties planning for future development , your co-operation in completing the attached questionnaire would be very much appreciated . |
| 28 | To this end , the role of planning and central controls would be strengthened , although , in order to stimulate the market , the credit supply would be increased , restrictions on capital investment would be relaxed and rural enterprises encouraged . |
| 29 | Eschewing " gimmicks " he outlined a number of measures which he was implementing ( without requiring congressional authorization ) in order to stimulate the economy . |
| 30 | To this end it has relaxed the controls over the re-use of redundant agricultural and other buildings in the countryside in order to stimulate the growth of small businesses . |