Example sentences of "order [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 2 | that in order to conform to the current building regulations it is now mandatory to have a proper er electrically mains operated smoke alarm system installed in the home . |
| 3 | The centralisation introduced an extra tier of administration at the Area Board headquarters , and in one Board , the North Eastern , this extra tier was somewhat unnecessarily introduced into an area which prior to nationalisation had had a rather efficient , centralised company undertaking , in order to conform to the organising committee 's purely advisory organisational blueprint for Boards . |
| 4 | In order to conform to the conventional direction of the papillomavirus genome the octamer sequence has been written as ATTTGCAT rather than the complementary sequence ATGCAAAT which is more often presented . |
| 5 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 6 | The hajduks of popular legend were Robin Hood figures , robbing the rich Turks in order to give to the poor Serbs . |
| 7 | First , society may wish to take from the rich in order to give to the poor . |
| 8 | ( ii ) There is a general overriding principle that the Schedule must be interpreted by reference principally to the system and objectives of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters signed at Brussels on 27 September 1968 in order to ensure that it is fully effective ; in order to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established ; and in order to contribute to the proper administration of justice within the Community by preventing parallel proceedings before the courts of different contracting states , and avoiding conflict between decisions which might result from permitting such parallel proceedings to continue . |
| 9 | The package made a net adjustment of L14,200,000 million ( approximately US$10,500 million ) , including some increased indirect taxes and cuts in public expenditure , in order to keep to the budgeted deficit for 1991 of L132,000,000 million . |
| 10 | The design and content of the Active MBA at Henley remains flexible in order to respond to the changing needs and aspirations of the members and their organisations , as well as more general developments in managerial thinking . |
| 11 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 12 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 13 | After 1975 ASEAN downgraded its security links with the West in order to adapt to the new regional constellation of forces . |