Example sentences of "order [to-vb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation . |
| 2 | However , as the receiver in exercising his power of sale is in a position analogous to that of the mortgagee , he is not obliged to postpone sale in order to obtain a better price or to adopt a piecemeal method of sale . |
| 3 | EMSAs relative to the CHX experiments were performed with the following adjustments in order to obtain a better resolution of the various retarded bands : after the incubation with the probe , the samples were centrifuged for 5' at 4°C in microfuge and electrophoresed on a 30 cm. long 6% polyacrylamide gel in 0.25 TBE at 4°C which was prerun for 30' at 4°C . |
| 4 | Other studies too have described how mothers regularly cut down or miss out on meals in order to provide a better diet for their children . |
| 5 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 6 | It also wants to give higher priority to art in education in order to reach a wider audience . |
| 7 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 8 | Try to be as flexible as possible : it may be well worth moving , say , the cooker as little as 1 metre ( 3 ft ) from its existing position in order to create a better work flow . |
| 9 | PR is used in order to create a better environment for the organisation and its activities . |
| 10 | All the parties for example , after the trials of war , believed in the need to reform and expand the social security system in order to create a fairer society . |
| 11 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 12 | It is this last which , at the time of writing , is proving to be a major issue of contention in Council meetings , as the Commission and its allies demand a considerable increase in order to fund a further transfer of wealth to the EEC 's poorer nations as part of the ‘ Cohesion Fund ’ . |
| 13 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 14 | This was limited and , in order to use a longer vehicle , radial axle-boxes were introduced . |
| 15 | They had no need to empty their minds of conventional images in order to build a purer system of thought , but instead they were perfectly at home with the conventional . |
| 16 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 17 | The same kind of point is illustrated by ( 19 ) , except here it is more likely that it is the notion of full luminescence which is explained in the more familiar terms given in the reformulation : In these examples , the speaker 's aim in reformulating an utterance is to enrich the hearer 's encyclopedic entries in order to ensure a greater understanding of the surrounding discourse or text . |
| 18 | This research therefore aims to isolate the better performing UK companies and to examine their marketing activities in order to develop a better understanding of best marketing practice . |
| 19 | The law does not allow you to give away substantial sums of money , for example to a relative or a charity , prior to coming into care in order to pay a lower charge for your accommodation . |
| 20 | We shall also find that people in one band will attempt to switch to another in order to pay a lower rate of council tax . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But if it is the case that language learning is activated by the socio-cultural purpose of schematic extension , that we learn language in order to get a better grasp of the world so that we can turn it to our advantage , then it would seem to follow that a central problem in the teaching of a foreign language lies in the provision of some comparable activating purpose . |
| 23 | Her hand shook slightly as she reached for a swab , and the child began to whimper as she gently began trying to clear the affected area in order to get a better look . |
| 24 | Consequently people are comparing the Community Charge which they 've got on their hands now er with an out of date rating system and they should probably add about 200 pounds to the rates they 're paying in order to get a better comparison . |
| 25 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 26 | Having to pay this new higher MLR would force the discount houses to tender a lower price for bills , in order to get a higher rate of discount . |
| 27 | Assuming height to be a benefit the investor is prepared to take a risk in order to get a higher reward . |
| 28 | Market segmentation is undertaken by suppliers in order to get a clearer picture of the market-place in order to offer a particular marketing mix to one or more segments . |
| 29 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 30 | He was saying that in order to have a greater life , you have to have a strong awareness of death . |