Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over what distance do cells have to communicate in order to establish their position ? |
| 2 | The offeror should be clear as to what minimum percentage of the target 's share capital it is willing to accept in order to meet its key objectives . |
| 3 | Should you feel that you are stagnating in your abyss of boredom , use your mind by studying something which has always interested you instead of something you needed to know in order to keep your job . |
| 4 | The material is discussed and analysed in order to identify what it is necessary to know in order to solve the problem , and hence manage patient care . |
| 5 | ‘ Difficulty in breathing ’ : The tutor and learners decide what they need to know in order to understand the problem and provide nursing care . |
| 6 | ‘ I sat down at my desk with a piece of paper , and asked myself what a minister required to know in order to contribute to the debate ’ . |
| 7 | It tells us what we need to know in order to understand ourselves and the world around us : |
| 8 | It is a perfectly valid question , and we can at least write down what we would need to know in order to calculate the answer . |
| 9 | One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further . |
| 10 | This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ? |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that repeated surveys such as the Social Attitudes Survey will be conducted for many years to come in order to allow these important distinctions to be made . |
| 12 | What we are going to do is find a diet that not only helps you to achieve effective weight loss , but is really healthy , suits your individual needs , and can be followed for years to come in order to maintain the weight and shape you want . |
| 13 | Compulsory retirement places older people in a no-win situation ; they are not allowed to work in order to earn their living , nevertheless , their enforced lack of productivity makes them a ‘ burden ’ , and serves to devalue them . |
| 14 | Many salesmen , for instance , are in practice entitled to be allowed to work in order to earn their commission . |
| 15 | Some families are reluctant to send children to these schools and other children are obliged to work in order to help support their families . |
| 16 | Resources which are willing and able to work in order to raise the rate of output and to boost living standards are failing to be employed . |
| 17 | The initial and critical assumption is that because people need to work in order to live , the economic basis of a society governs all human relationships and culture . |
| 18 | The duration of this period was determined by what was understood to be the minimum length of time that an unemployed person would have to work In order to reopen rights to unemployment benefits . |
| 19 | The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed . |
| 20 | She did n't come to work in order to be loved . ’ |
| 21 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 22 | This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective . |
| 23 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 24 | In the case of non-insulin treated patients the health care objectives which practices will then have to meet in order to qualify for diabetic care payments could be met by prompting structured care as in Islington . |
| 25 | It is my intention to prepare a further paper taking account of the comments received , and then to invite interested parties to meet in order to discuss the way forward . |
| 26 | The headhunter may well feel that there is a need to bring a more general consulting focus to bear in order to solve the organisational issues before an executive search is undertaken . |
| 27 | Where there was reluctance — as in Britain — middle-class pressure had to be brought to bear in order to convince the politicians that something ought to be done . |
| 28 | She went home that night having had to bring all her professionalism to bear in order to concentrate on the job in hand . |
| 29 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 30 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |