Example sentences of "order [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | I moved a pair of cotton slacks , a brasaière , a housecoat , a page of a letter in finnish , a jar of Pond 's cold cream , some roll-on deodorant and a half-full cup of cold coffee in order to sit on the basketwork chair . |
| 3 | A good example of this is the requirement to produce disaggregated operating statements , in order to report on the performance of different sectors of a given industry . |
| 4 | Registered foreign lawyers are required to pay a fee ( £280 for 1991/92 ) on first registration and an annual fee of an amount equal to two thirds of the current practising certificate fee in order to remain on the register . |
| 5 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 6 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 7 | This involves the exclusion of other areas of their lives in order to concentrate on the matter in hand . |
| 8 | Observers suggested that election of a Gorbachev ally would enable him to surrender completely the day-to-day running of the party in order to concentrate on the presidency . |
| 9 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 10 | She went home that night having had to bring all her professionalism to bear in order to concentrate on the job in hand . |
| 11 | They had to be disposed of quickly to make room in the depôts for the new cars on order to work on the main line . |
| 12 | The political implications of Sukenick 's experimentation can be seen clearly in his second novel Out ( 1973 ) , which sets up a journey as structural metaphor in order to comment on the political temper of the late Nixon years . |
| 13 | Sir , — I write to you in my capacity as president of the Institut des Reviseurs d'Entreprises ( Institute of Auditors ) of Luxembourg in order to comment on the article Ramrath opens borders to accountants ( ACCOUNTANCY , July 1992 , p 27 ) . |
| 14 | More appropriate terms are warm , friendly , modern or stylish , and if our attention should focus upon the pattern or texture of the wallpaper or upholstery , this should always be in order to comment on the taste of the selector . |
| 15 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 16 | The loss of profit because they had been compelled to sell their home in order to complete on the purchase and the cost of borrowing and er the ancillary matters that are set out in the claim and dealt with by the accountant . |
| 17 | At the same time , the early Church had no compunction about modifying its own tenets and dogma in order to capitalise on the opportunity afforded it . |
| 18 | I argue for this in Chapter 12 concerning the possibility of participation in school worship at different levels , one level being a conscious but temporary withholding of the critical faculties in order to get on the wavelength of a particular belief . |
| 19 | Where Whitehall mandolins would be sat on especially those who were involved in over interpreting general directives from Brussels and this side of the house has been jostling for position I am told , in order to get on the standing committee which is about to start upstairs . |
| 20 | It may be necessary to stop at intervals to go over certain key points in order to check on the degree of understanding , or to reinforce a point while it is fresh in the memory . |
| 21 | In Northern Ireland , in order to prevent hordes crossing the border in order to reside on the qualifying date , three month 's prior residence in the constituency is required ( 1983 Act , s.1(2) ) . |