Example sentences of "to make [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all these ways they were more akin to urban dwellers , and felt they had some independent choices to make in order to improve their lives . |
| 2 | After the Falklands war , one could observe what great efforts relatives of soldiers and sailors killed there were prepared to make in order to visit their graves , and so keep memory alive . |
| 3 | Without the guidance of hypotheses we should not know what to observe , what to look for , or what experiment to make in order to discover order in routine . ’ |
| 4 | Nor will she be able to look forward to that sense of completeness when her grieving is over which is experienced by the widow whose marriage was happy , and she will have some difficult emotional adjustments to make in order to come to terms with her situation , in which both love and life seem to have betrayed her . |
| 5 | But an assumption that Ptolemy had to make in order to predict these positions correctly was that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |
| 6 | I wonder if he could tell us whether he is prepared to amend the legislation in this fashion , and perhaps tell the House exactly what other amendments he needs to make in order to take account of changing circumstances . |
| 7 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 8 | We could ask , for example : what sort of personal sacrifices might people have to make in order to reduce pollution ? |