Example sentences of "order [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and most important step , therefore , was to give the orders to ensure a lessening of tension in the neck area so that the normal functioning of the Primary Control could be restored . |
| 2 | The Peugeot Parts Promise guarantees that the parts the dealer orders to complete a job will be delivered from the company 's central warehouse to any dealer in mainland Britain by 8am the next morning . |
| 3 | In January 1953 Holford-Walker , the former Moran Officer , arrived in Kajiado with orders to muster a Masai force for anti-terrorist operations in the Aberdares . |
| 4 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 5 | A policeman , convinced of the guilt of a suspect , distrustful of juries and magistrates and more cynical than ethical may seek to extract a confession in order to support a charge and may elaborate a confession in order to obtain a conviction . |
| 6 | Your issue concentrated too much on women deploring male violence : if men are to become less violent , women must stop requiring them to enslave themselves to the industrial machine in order to support a family . |
| 7 | That is , teachers will take a stance that they know will damage their careers in order to uphold a principle about how the school should run . |
| 8 | Accordingly , I would be grateful if you could telephone me at your convenience in order to arrange a meeting at a mutually convenient time . |
| 9 | Myth can be defined neither by its object nor by its material , for any material can arbitrarily be endowed with meaning : an arrow which is brought in order to signify a challenge is also a kind of speech . |
| 10 | I am six-foot four , and , in order to sink a pint , I had to sit down first . |
| 11 | Before the posters could be distributed , the latter fired off a letter , claiming that , under the Representation of the People Act 1983 , it is illegal to incur expenses in order to promote a candidate without that candidate 's permission , and that ‘ if you proceed , you and anyone who joins with you may commit a criminal offence . ’ |
| 12 | This included a stern order to attend a wine and cheese party in Kensington the following week at which I would be able to collect one of the following gifts ; an environmentally friendly tofu griddle and rotisserie ; postdated shopping vouchers for the Sock Shop , Tie Rack , Next , Laura Ashley , Habitat , Heals and the Conran Shop ; a holiday in Nepal ; or a year 's supply of irradiated fruit . |
| 13 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Clearly this definition can be generalized in order to compare a number of different systems and thus provide a useful comparative measure . |
| 16 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 17 | Mary Georgina Boulton observes that women with pre-school children , in order to restore a sense of control in their lives and cope with their workload , need to create a structure to their work . |
| 18 | On the technical side , arguments include the ethics of analysing umpires ' decisions , the pros and cons of double-ended coverage and the problems of cutting short a broadcast at a crucial stage in order to accommodate a news bulletin or racing from Ascot . |
| 19 | For example , married women who contributed fully in order to claim a retirement pension had to satisfy additional tests ( Land , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable . |
| 21 | The issue becomes especially important where , as a result of questioning , and without the benefit of the correct conditions or the advice from the solicitor , access to whom has been wrongly denied , the suspect makes a damaging confession which the police later try to rely upon at the trial in order to secure a conviction . |
| 22 | Parents , relatives and foster parents may seek a residence order under s8 in order to secure a child 's release from care . |
| 23 | It reportedly plans to extract 9 million tonnes of ore a year by the end of 1993 , in order to secure a contract from the European steel industry . |
| 24 | Ann Wigglesworth observed that when Augustine and Indir Borde had come for the Church of Scotland there had been a considerable delay and difficulty in getting their work permits and Ros Lyle brought evidence from the Welsh Presbyterial Church and Council for World Mission , where political pressure was needed in order to secure a permit for someone . |
| 25 | Events that occur out of sight are automatically blamed on the child , or the mother may anticipate problems and keep warning or threatening the child in order to forestall a problem . |
| 26 | FARMERS on Tealham and Tadham moors on the Somerset Levels are rushing to drain their land in order to forestall a plan by the Nature Conservancy Council to declare the area a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its rare combination of waterfowl , meadow plants and aquatic flora and fauna , Tom King , secretary of state for the environment , has already granted the council 's request for an emergency order to stop deep drains being installed on 30 hectares belonging to one farmer . |
| 27 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 28 | Other cases which have consistently championed the object and intent approach are Mills v Dunham [ 1891 ] 1 Ch 576 , Moenich v Fenestre ( 1892 ) 61 LJ Ch 737 , Underwood ( E ) & Son Ltd v Barker [ 1899 ] 1 Ch 300 , Haynes v Doman [ 1899 ] 2 Ch 13 , and Caribonum Co Ltd v Le Couch ( 1913 ) 109 LT 385 in which Eve J used the object and intent approach in order to construe a business secrets clause . |
| 29 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 30 | In order to retrieve a piece of information , its address is placed in the SAR and a ‘ read ’ signal sent to the store ; after some delay , the information is available in the SDR , for routing to some other part of the computer . |