Example sentences of "order [to-vb] sense [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Is that the idea of Viva Hate ! that we need bigotries in order to make sense of the world , in order to act ?
2 If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings .
3 The other is that we employ knowledge — of the world , of the speaker , of social convention , of what is going on around us as we read or listen — in order to make sense of the language we are encountering .
4 So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament .
5 In other words , in order to make sense of the concept of an objective order we have to postulate the possibility of " witnesses " other than ourselves .
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