Example sentences of "in order [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound .
2 In order to set out the Keynesian theory more formally , we must first make a number of assumptions .
3 Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy .
4 In order to seep up the fetid atmosphere of the New York streets , a hidden camera was used to track Dustin 's peregrinations .
5 In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 .
6 He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties .
7 If the new democracies are denied markets for their goods , then they will be unable to obtain the hard currency they urgently need in order to carry out the far-reaching reforms that will modernise their economies .
8 It is my contention that ‘ time ’ is now under the control of such an individual , who manipulates it in order to do down the working man .
9 This can lead to a vicious circle , in which important communication is filtered out by power-seekers so that the structure ( which causes most of the problems ) is reinforced in order to flush out the filtered information , thereby making the filtering worse .
10 We 're checking on every person who spent the night under this roof , in order to build up the fullest picture of events .
11 We have assumed that the product market provides very little by way of constraint in this case in order to bring out the important point that comparisons should be like-with-like .
12 Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control .
13 Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri .
14 The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry .
15 Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence .
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