Example sentences of "order [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 32 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 33 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 34 | At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process . |
| 35 | They reportedly promised to work together in order to speed up the " deep reconstruction of the state " while " preserving social peace " . |
| 36 | Mr Major resisted the temptation to leave some excise duties unchanged in order to hold down the inflation rate . |
| 37 | This can lead to a vicious circle , in which important communication is filtered out by power-seekers so that the structure ( which causes most of the problems ) is reinforced in order to flush out the filtered information , thereby making the filtering worse . |
| 38 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 39 | In order to break down the straw , a greater use of chemicals will be required to encourage bacterial growth in time to assimilate the product , before the new crop emerges . |
| 40 | In addition Housing Action Trusts were proposed in order to take over the operation of specific run-down council estates , with the intention of changing their tenure to the private sector or housing associations . |
| 41 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 42 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 43 | May I have your Majesty 's order to take out the soldiers and destroy them ? " |
| 44 | If you do n't tell them that we want a banker 's order to take out the er annual payments . |
| 45 | In order to test out the connections between the two , try transcribing a conversation you 've overheard on a bus , in a dentist 's waiting-room or round a meal table . |
| 46 | An alternative morphological system had to be devised in order to test out the system ( see below ) . |
| 47 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 48 | Not all alternatives are looked at , rather those most familiar to decision-makers or deviating least from existing practice are examined first , in order to cut down the information and transition costs associated with more radical changes . |
| 49 | Whether a guillotine has been imposed or not , the Speaker has the power to select and group amendments in order to cut down the number and to confine debate to the salient points , but even with this power of Speaker 's selection , a guillotine may mean that blocks of amendments are never reached . |
| 50 | Instead of hunting all over the sky , the pilots concentrated on one scatter of targets and spiralled down through them , turning tightly in order to cut down the risk of collision . |
| 51 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 52 | Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri . |
| 53 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 54 | The order to hand over the documents was stayed , pending the outcome of Spicers ' appeal to the Lords . |
| 55 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 56 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 57 | He realized that , in order to bring about the changes he was seeking , he would first have to inhibit ( or stop ) his habitual instinctive response to a given stimulus . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The transfer of patients from St Wulstan 's to Powick , in order to bring about the closure of the former hospital , which housed a preponderance of younger long-stay patients , was planned almost in spite of the Development Project . |
| 60 | It had become evident by now that the sepoys were preparing to make a major assault in order to bring about the end of the siege . |