Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 2 | It is possible that the writers may have decided , in each case , that the rule had to be broken in order to help the reader follow the sentence . |
| 3 | Local government had to be devised in order to operate local health , welfare and housing policies , and local government today is still very strongly involved in the social service area . |
| 4 | An alternative morphological system had to be devised in order to test out the system ( see below ) . |
| 5 | Iraq was the only Arab state capable of challenging Israel 's military hegemony over the Middle East , therefore Iraq 's military power had to be destroyed in order to restore the status quo . |
| 6 | As well as the physical provisions , certain moral and ethical standards had to be met in order to gain eternity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nouhak Phoumsavan , the SPA president , stated that the legislation had to be introduced in order to " stabilize the political situation and social order " . |
| 9 | Furthermore , whatever the unease felt in London when Washington later decided that the bombers should be stationed permanently in Britain , this was accepted as part of the price that had to be paid in order to bind the Americans as tightly as possible to Nato and the defence of Europe . |
| 10 | The students not only tore down the separate ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ notices from the lavatories … but they even painted out the distinction between first floor and second , between second and third and so on : even purely functional classifications of space had to go , just as the watches and clocks had to be discarded in order to free time . |
| 11 | The linearity and chronology of the conventional novel had to be abandoned in order to achieve this : the minute movements of attraction and repulsion towards other consciousnesses , language and objects could not be accommodated within the character-centred novel of classic realism . |
| 12 | All items of the total landscaping package had to be measured in order to submit realistic costs . |
| 13 | in In re A. ( Minors ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 106 , considered the degree of intolerability which had to be established in order to bring into operation the provisions of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 14 | The shape of the garden had to be changed in order to allow the widening of the access road and long delays occurred in defining the new boundaries . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet they wriggled away , heading directly for water even though a rise in the ground had to be climbed in order to reach it . |
| 17 | In the case of the Shipbuilding Engineering and Repairing Bill in 1976 , it was not appreciated until the Bill was well under way that it was , by reason of naming the firms to be affected in a schedule , a hybrid Bill and its passage had to be deferred in order that the above procedures could be gone through . |
| 18 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |