Example sentences of "in order [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 3 | The transfer of Baker , who in 1988 had resigned as Treasury Secretary in order to take over Bush 's election campaign when it was trailing badly in the polls , had been widely anticipated in the month prior to the announcement . |
| 4 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 5 | That means that in order to stimulate over a large area the intensity of stimulation at the input site is likely to be many orders of magnitudes in excess of normal levels of electrical or chemical activity . |
| 6 | Remarks made on June 19 by Jacques Chirac , mayor of Paris and leader of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , were attacked as racist by Cresson , who had already accused Chirac of plumbing racist feeling in order to win over voters from the far-right National Front ( FN ) . |
| 7 | The fishermen had sighted the boat close inshore under Gribbin Head , and had hove-to in their ketches in order to row over and investigate . |
| 8 | The letter concluded with a request for a final session of the USSR Supreme Soviet in order to hand over power constitutionally , because " it is gross discontinuities , destructive revolutions and usurpations in the course of social development which are one of the reasons for the historic misfortunes of our peoples " . |
| 9 | Now she felt the need to be alone for a while in order to look over her notes and see if they would help her in her plans for the future . |
| 10 | Even if this appears to have occurred , a deconstructive account will show how such a text had to dissimulate in order to cover over its own openings , or , to put it the other way round , it will show how history must always be organized by an attempted occlusion of its own conditions of historicity . |
| 11 | A very advanced movement is for the patient to lift the hemiplegic leg backwards and take it behind him , in order to roll over onto his back . |