Example sentences of "to take [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem reasonable to define pain and to measure its intensity in terms of the amount of morphine which a patient freely chooses to take in order to restore his own comfort . |
| 2 | But of far more use to the company is strategic market research which explicitly identifies the actions the company needs to take in order to achieve a position in a market . |
| 3 | Not to ‘ produce ’ , but to ‘ take ’ ; to take in order to supply the Red Army … and so on , in the shortest possible time . |
| 4 | These principles essentially define the subject : they are the bearings that teachers need to take in order to plot their course . |
| 5 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 6 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 7 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |