Example sentences of "order [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August the navigation had to be closed at Ash Lock , in order to conserve water in the Hampshire pound . |
| 2 | Similarly , although libraries were established in temples and palaces in order to conserve records of the past , there is no evidence of any interest in history , except in so far as it was a guide to action in the present . |
| 3 | Questionnaires were sent out to 300 employees and timekeepers in order to gather data on the problem areas . |
| 4 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 5 | In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he has intentionally made the ‘ syntax error ’ in order to alert people to the danger of their nuclear inventions . |
| 7 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 8 | In the spring and summer of 1936 , she went to the Mercury Theatre on at least seven occasions in order to see Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 9 | In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights , the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies . |
| 10 | The latter urged far-reaching reforms that could only be implemented by a revolutionary dictatorship , which would need to realign itself internationally in order to secure protection against the United States . |
| 11 | In order to secure compliance with the Treaty of Rome , the national authorities in the member states ( including regional and local authorities ) are bound to inform the Commission in advance of any plans to grant subsidies or to alter the terms of existing subsidies . |
| 12 | UK filmmakers abandoned their innovations with film narrative , producing instead dull , static recordings of theatrical productions in order to secure pictures of the required length . |
| 13 | The order followed reports that Union Carbide was attempting to transfer shares in its subsidiary to a trust for building a hospital for victims of the disaster , in order to forestall seizure by the court . |
| 14 | Representatives of 21 factions met in Beirut over Christmas to issue a joint call for Mr Saddam Hussein 's overthrow in order to forestall war in the Gulf . |
| 15 | Despite his decreased speed , he had to squint against the onrush of the slipstream buffeting through the ragged hole before him , in order to catch sight of the other car . |
| 16 | Is it worth killing off the unsuccessful part in order to concentrate resources on the successful side ? |
| 17 | They are strategically erected in places favoured by migrant birds , such as over stone walls or steep-sided streams , and are often planted with trees and bushes in order to encourage birds into the ‘ tunnel ’ which ends in a glass-fronted catching box . |
| 18 | On July 26 , Cabinet ministers announced that a new committee would review the financial benefits that the previous government had made available in order to encourage settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 19 | This enables the National Central Control to supplement supplies coming ashore in order to meet demands during the coldest of winter days . |
| 20 | A magnetic field ( the Flux ) is generated by these heads in order to write information to the magnetic coating on the floppy disk . |
| 21 | From a bank 's standpoint , a serious danger with charter party bills of lading is the possibility of having to pay unexpectedly large freight charges in order to obtain possession of the merchandise . |
| 22 | If an abatement notice , served in compliance with s.93 of the 1936 Act , is not complied with at the expiry of the specified time , or the local authority thinks that the nuisance , although abated , is likely to recur , s.94(1) of that Act provides that it is the duty of the local authority to institute summary proceedings for a nuisance order , in order to obtain compliance with the notice or otherwise abatement of the nuisance . |
| 23 | In 1976 the Labour Government was forced to impose curbs on public expenditure in order to obtain assistance from the International Monetary Fund . |
| 24 | However , relational DBMS require the user to be aware of the relations that have been set up in order to obtain information from the database , including keys and foreign keys used to join relations . |
| 25 | In order to obtain data on the difficulty of the questions at different levels it was necessary for the sample of pupils taking them to be drawn from the complete range of target pupils in the schools . |
| 26 | It also believes that the repertoire of music should be a varied one , but with a familiar core of material in order to provide stability for the worshippers . |
| 27 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 28 | In order to provide evidence for the view that the context can act as a retrieval cue ( or exert conditional control over an association ) , it is necessary , as a first step , to demonstrate context-specificity using the control procedures recommended by Lovibond et al . |
| 29 | The relative abundance of dissolved constituents released through weathering reactions into surface waters can be compared to their relative abundance in the bedrock in order to provide information on the types of chemical reactions that are occurring . |
| 30 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |