Example sentences of "order [to-vb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preserved against threats from all quarters his claims to patronage in order to support a rapidly growing number of servants , whose loyalty he protected and encouraged with writs of prohibition and seizures of episcopal temporalities . |
| 2 | In order to sustain a more robust disagreement , individualist theorists must contend that human autonomy makes a substantial difference to the explanation of action , and stands in the way of the determinist account supposedly favoured by holists . |
| 3 | The more the government dislikes the income distribution thrown up by the free market , a distribution reflecting differences in innate ability , human capital , and financial wealth , the more the government is likely to judge that the inefficiency costs of distortionary taxes are a price worth paying in order to secure a more equitable distribution of income and utility . |
| 4 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 5 | To this end , and in order to provide a nationally representative sample , we commissioned Gallup to interview 1,000 mums at home with children under the age of 16 . |
| 6 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 7 | However , the model needs to be developed in order to provide a more detailed view of ‘ race ’ and British cinema : the categorisation that Vieler-Porter suggests limits the scope for trans-historical analysis , and only concentrates on the manifest content of the texts . |
| 8 | We must therefore confront the empirical problem of separating out classical from Keynesian influences in order to answer a very simple question : is the unemployment which is observed in a particular economy over a given period of time predominantly classical or predominantly Keynesian in origin ? |
| 9 | In order to create a more modern image Potential Teachers ' Day will be advertised as ‘ An introductory workshop for an in-depth look at the Medau method of training and teaching movement ’ . |
| 10 | They propose a more comprehensive assessment of LFA handicaps on a farm by farm basis with HLCAs linked to it in order to create a more favourable climate for conservation . |
| 11 | On June 1st Pen Kent , a senior official of the Bank of England , urged members of the newly formed Property Bankers Association to consider securitisation and other means of reducing the banks ' exposure to property , in order to create a more liquid market . |
| 12 | Fullagar J. , at p. 124 , considered that the payments ‘ were made in order to avoid a very real risk that a refusal to pay would be followed by action which could be ruinous to the plaintiffs . ’ |
| 13 | When the lease ended in 1810 , Lord transferred his ground to North Bank , Regent 's Park , in order to avoid a greatly increased rent bill , and the MCC moved there in 1811 . |
| 14 | There is clearly a connection between the preference of TNCs to hire women over men in EPZs in order to procure a more docile labour force ( regularly cloaked in the rationale that ‘ nimble-fingered girls ’ are more suited for assembly work ) , and the cruder forms of patriarchy in some Third World countries . |
| 15 | Transformational grammar Chomsky 's system of transformational grammar was developed in order to give a mathematically precise description of some of the most striking features of language . |
| 16 | These figures were converted into current and constant prices expressed in US dollar terms as a basis for comparison with Western aid and in order to give a more accurate picture of fluctuations . |
| 17 | Social action would be linked with adult education in order to give a much wider perspective and provide a basis for life . |
| 18 | The point here , though , is that the existence of a great range of such implications , some of which have only the most tenuous relationship to the semantic content of what is said , emphasizes the need for a theory or theories that will complement semantics in order to give a relatively full account of how we use language to communicate . |
| 19 | In order to ensure a more appropriate distribution across the states of production , prices and a rational pattern of modernisation , the treaty schedule called for a five-year transitional period of two distinct stages . |
| 20 | The aims of the research are to explore overt and covert face recognition abilities across a range of different types of visual recognition abilities across a range of different types of visual recognition impairment , in order to develop a more adequate understanding of this phenomenon of ‘ covert ’ recognition , and to begin to explore the possibility of suing covert knowledge as a basis for remediation of these very disabling conditions in suitable cases . |
| 21 | Yes : like most PGCE courses we have undergone surgery in order to present a more vigorous profile to the cold light of the new dawn . |
| 22 | You can slip two or more needles side by side and most of the time it is preferable to do so in order to get a more definite design effect . |
| 23 | The unique insights of each are not lost , for in order to have a less inadequate appreciation of what is at the heart of reality we need to affirm all insights . |
| 24 | They were concerned to push beyond the simple and trite observation that issues do not matter in electoral politics in order to ask a more detailed question as to the " terms " on which they are likely to matter . |
| 25 | It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media . |
| 26 | Mr Hurd said the essential distinction was ‘ between people who quite understandably want to move … somewhere else in order to achieve a more agreeable life , and people who are actually forced to do so by the well-founded fear of persecution . |
| 27 | There does , however , seem to be some merit in attempting to bring into strategic analysis the finance analyst 's tools of valuation , in order to produce a more rigorous consideration of market attractiveness , competitive strengths and the effects of movements of SBUs around the matrix . |
| 28 | In order to make a little extra money , the most inventive composer of his time was reduced to making arrangements of earlier music , especially Handel 's , for concerts sponsored by Baron van Swieten . |