Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] order [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the anatomists , the search for order involved the detection of underlying relationships between the structures of different species . |
| 2 | It may be , indeed , that their solicitude for the boy was slightly harmful , for the Prince was easily distracted from his studies to the extent that his tutor , Augustin Filon , later remarked : ‘ It needed the effects of the revolution and exile in order to harden the Prince 's will to work . ’ |
| 3 | On 13 September 1979 , a group of market women met to form an association in order to call a halt to the corrupt practices of the market administration and police and to try to improve their working conditions . |
| 4 | It might be said that the analogy between policemen and scientists is incorrect because , while a scientist engages in experiment in order to test a pre-existing hypothesis , a policeman approaches an investigation with an open mind and is , therefore , not vulnerable to bias . |
| 5 | Observation and experiment in order to discover the properties of things in the material world is a worthwhile activity ; so much so that Locke sometimes honours its results with the more dignified term ‘ experimental knowledge ’ . |
| 6 | The information required is proprioceptive : it has to provide a kind of internal sensation or perception in order to activate the correct response . |
| 7 | The administration set up its own special task force in order to find an alternative less likely to antagonise the logging industry . |
| 8 | Thus , the change masters I studied had to build a coalition in order to find the backers or ‘ power sources ’ to provide information , support , and resources for their projects . |
| 9 | The report found that the " authorities have wisely used the recent years of affluence to cut tax rates , pay off what limited debt they had , replenish budgetary reserves and increase public investment in order to provide an efficient economic infrastructure " . |
| 10 | As the Financial Times pointed out , there are rational arguments for the government to borrow the money , instead of trying to hold down investment in order to raise the funds from private investors and short term price rises for consumers of 7 per cent above inflation or more . |
| 11 | There are at least three different types of screw threaded necks on bottles , and each needs a specific closure in order to form a seal with the top of the bottle , otherwise the bottle leaks . |
| 12 | Article 11 , however , states that suitable proposals should be brought forward by 1997 for appropriate training for every general medical practitioner in order to satisfy the specific requirements of general medical practice . |
| 13 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 14 | Sir Samuel Hoare was very keen , and in 1937 he insisted on leaving the Admiralty in order to make a great feature of prison reform . |
| 15 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 16 | If the government wishes to raise tax revenue in order to subsidize the poor , it should levy a tax on films . |
| 17 | Personally , I tend to see Malcolm 's marriage to Margaret as part of a process by which our king invited in a team of management consultants from the Continent in order to alienate the land even further from the people . |
| 18 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 19 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |
| 20 | Do not try to help by lifting your head for instance ; when your head needs to be turned to one side in order to massage a part of your neck , let the turning be done for you . |
| 21 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 22 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 23 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 24 | He stated that he intended to visit the island in the near future in order to supervise the restoration of services and to ask remaining rebel units to surrender . |
| 25 | First , the market and third parties have a legitimate expectation to be entitled to rely on the validity of the Panel 's rules and decisions , and secondly , contemporaneous judicial review would only increase the possibility of delaying tactical litigation by an unscrupulous party to a bid in order to gain an advantage in the takeover process . |
| 26 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 27 | Institutions of higher education do not need to conduct research in order to justify the title ‘ institution of higher education ’ . |
| 28 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 29 | Rather , the purpose here is to build on that recent research in order to situate the debates on sexuality and disease in the light of the longer-term history of medico-moral regulation . |
| 30 | Electric vehicles with lead acid batteries carry a lot of weight in order to get a reasonable speed . |