Example sentences of "order to keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would also be an appropriate time to institute similar legislation to that of the US government in order to keep company profits stable , thereby maintaining research levels , and at the same time ensure that people may benefit from drugs that would otherwise not be available because they were not profitable to produce . |
| 2 | He claimed that the government was forcing Petrobrás to run at a loss in order to keep petrol prices and thus inflation down . |
| 3 | Similarly , a consumer boom , to the extent that it increases the transactions demand for money and increases imports , will encourage the authorities to increase interest rates in order to keep money supply on target . |
| 4 | In order to keep pace with growing demand for services , by the end of the 60's hardware has been upgraded to include first one and then a second ICL 1900 series processor . |
| 5 | The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " . |
| 6 | Then he was sweeping through the doorway of the main reception-room , with Shiona having to hurry in order to keep pace with him . |
| 7 | B. Managers tried to find the best places for iron and steel works , in order to keep transport costs as low as possible . |
| 8 | In 1988 , Mr Ken Hutchinson , one of the churchwardens , said that this year they had put forward some of the younger men of the parish in order to keep interest in the tradition alive , though there was no lack of interest at present and the schoolroom was certainly packed full . |
| 9 | In adult life we talk about people withholding what they have in order to keep control ; we talk about ‘ shitty ’ behaviour to describe what happens when someone ‘ messes things up ’ . |
| 10 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 11 | The federal Treasurer Paul Keating suggested that the state should either offer up the SBSA for sale , or sell off some of its other assets to cover the losses , rather than raise taxes in order to keep control of the bank . |
| 12 | And you were working at the ski-shop in order to keep body and soul together ? ’ |
| 13 | Finally , in Soviet bureaucracy as in any other , there are perils in drawing too firmly the lines between policy , advice and implementation , but I introduce these distinctions here in order to keep confusion within bounds . |
| 14 | In order to keep print echo active , we need to suspend the CLI command sequence after we have issued the print echo command . |
| 15 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |
| 16 | If the women really are changing the parturition rules for the second time in ten years , it is probably more to keep the men on the hop than anything else — just as black people keep changing the name you are allowed to call them in order to keep whitey on his toes . |
| 17 | I thought we had to have excessively high interest rates in order to keep sterling where it is . |