Example sentences of "order [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station is extending its peak-time slots from the present 10.40pm until midnight in order to include a regular series of programmes . |
| 2 | The station is extending its peak-time slots from the present 10.40pm until midnight in order to include a regular series of programmes . |
| 3 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 4 | He is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he was hit by the stolen car . |
| 5 | By the 1820s Cuvier was associated with a conservative political attitude that favoured a static image of Nature in order to uphold a static model of the social order . |
| 6 | It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help . |
| 7 | The limiting factor of that value for each individual will be the amount of mental effort that he is willing or able to make , either alone or with help , in order to acquire a mental image of , and subsequently a conviction about , the reality of the Created God . |
| 8 | Many studies of development consider what factors an individual must experience in order to acquire a particular behaviour pattern . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ said Finn , parting the clothes in order to light a fresh cigarette , ‘ I 'm not having any , see ? |
| 10 | The latter figure allows for those who played the market : those who , having bought shares as a result of one or more privatizations , sold them in order to realize a quick capital gain . |
| 11 | He maintains that he did so in order to promote a public debate on Israel 's nuclear programme . |
| 12 | After she left school she came to London from her home in Yorkshire in order to attend a secretarial college , but abandoned that and enrolled with a secretarial agency . |
| 13 | New conditions which are necessary in order to implement a revised offer will , however , be permitted subject to the prior consent of the Panel ( see para 13.3.17 below ) . |
| 14 | As chancellor , he told the Independent that he would consider cutting public spending or raising indirect taxes in order to sustain a balanced budget . |
| 15 | This is growing in popularity and provides an opportunity for sensitive and careful experimentation in order to embrace a wide range of local people , of all ages and with different musical preferences . |
| 16 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 17 | Barat then returns , encounters Travers , and succeeds in imitating Marie and obtaining the meat in order to perform a bizarre ritual to preserve it from theft : ( To touch both arse and cunt three times ) |
| 18 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 19 | June , the non-Communist nations in Europe , set up the Committee of European Co-operation in order to draft a European recovery programme , and in August , the first ‘ Marshall Aid ’ arrived in Greece , followed by military advisers to assist in the Civil War against Communism . |
| 20 | Lorimer had thrown a dark coat , belonging to Jobbernole , over his splendid indoor clothes in order to affect a certain measure of disguise . |
| 21 | Thus canons often have tonic and dominant relationships , and in order to preserve a single tonality the 4th leap downwards from tonic to dominant often has to be followed by a leap of a 5th ( dominant down to tonic ) . |
| 22 | If the inflow falls short of mortgage lending plans a generous cushion of liquid assets can be run down in order to preserve a steady outflow of mortgage lending . |
| 23 | The dwellings were often damp as a result of their situation ; not only was this chosen to please the owner 's eye , but the cottage was sometimes actually sunk in the earth , in order to preserve a humble outline . |
| 24 | the sub–contractor 's management reversed its position and recommended the launch , contrary to the views of its engineers in order to accommodate a major customer |
| 25 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 26 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 27 | In December 1990 Bob Haboldt gave his rationale behind choosing a large gallery as stemming from the different approach of Continental buyers , who like to stroll in and look , as opposed to clients who tend to make an appointment to visit his New York gallery in order to see a specific work . |
| 28 | A legal system must take steps to control the use of force but it does not have to be totally successful in order to remain a legal system . |
| 29 | Directions had been given in order to enable a speedy hearing of the merits of the substantive applications . |
| 30 | In order to secure a private sector partner 's involvement there would probably have to be a preemption on the grant received , so that it could be reinvested in the project . |