Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 2 | The PRO 's attempts to work through DROs in order to gain control over computer records in government may be doomed to failure because of the latters ’ lack of clout and expertise . |
| 3 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 4 | For instance , John Flaxman , after whom a gallery is named at Staffordshire University , became famous for his portrait medallions and classical reliefs and George Stubbs was keen to work with Wedgwood in order to experiment with enamel colours on ceramic plaques . |
| 5 | To do otherwise , I would require to write in volume in order to do justice to them . |
| 6 | She was denied any opportunity to appear before councillors in order to appeal against her suspension . |
| 7 | Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts . |
| 8 | Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs . |
| 9 | But in Using a Model for Nursing ( Roper et al , 1983 ) , the third year student nurse contributing to the study in a surgical ward , commented that the model approach helped her to appreciate the need for planned discharge goals ; even when admitting the patient , she was alerted to consider what the patient required to know on discharge in order to resume her usual Activities of Living . |
| 10 | Associative learning , often called conditioning , has been studied in two forms , illustrated by Pavlov 's dogs , and pigeons learning to peck at discs in order to be fed . |
| 11 | For example , tax rates may have to differ across countries in order to achieve particular abatement targets and schemes for compensating the hardest hit consumers may need to developed . |
| 12 | Secondly , facing other groups with different views , they are obliged to engage in arguments in order to defend their ideology . |
| 13 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 14 | The council received letters from traders complaining of infringements of the Sunday trading legislation by other shops and intimating that the complainants would themselves feel obliged to open on Sundays in order to preserve their trade unless the Act was generally observed . |
| 15 | For the appellant Mr. Lester submits that it should now be appropriate for the courts to look at Hansard in order to ascertain the intention of the legislators as expressed in the proceedings on the Bill which has then been enacted in the statutory words requiring to be construed . |
| 16 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
| 17 | The latter question has arisen where young girls have been invited to submit to acts in order to train their voice or to improve their breathing — unbeknown to them , the act which they were permitting was sexual intercourse . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The election of Sir Michael followed Namaliu 's decision to retire from politics in order to spend more time with his wife who was seriously ill . |
| 20 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 21 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 22 | There will always be the possibility that his spontaneous preferences will change with wider information or finer perceptiveness , and to retreat from awareness in order to cling to a highly-valued end will be one of the great offences against ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 23 | In Chapters 5 and 6 the Chart is allowed to run to completion in order to determine the worst-case effects of lexical ambiguity . |
| 24 | CROSS-CHANNEL ferry operators P&O and Sealink Stena yesterday asked the Government to allow them to cooperate on services in order to meet the challenge of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 25 | For many years my husband Brian and I had determined to go to Normandy in order to visit the grave and to find out , if possible , any further information concerning the shooting down of his aircraft over Cherbourg in September 1940 , even though it had happened so many years before . |
| 26 | One of the things that I think is most unfortunate is that parents sometimes say to their youngsters ‘ You need to go to school in order to learn how to behave ’ . |
| 27 | This traditional working class is likely to want to economise on housing in order to have money available to pursue other interests and needs . |
| 28 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
| 29 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 30 | What factors do we need to take into account in order to put our analysis in context ? |