Example sentences of "[prep] order [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 2 | The cases form part of a series of actions relating to the various measures which the United Kingdom and Ireland took successively from 1983 onwards in order to combat what is termed in English as ‘ quota hopping , ’ that is to say the practice whereby , according to the United Kingdom , its fishing quotas are ‘ plundered ’ by vessels flying the British flag but lacking any genuine link with the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | I do n't want to be morbid , my lovely , or for you to think that I 'm just seducing you with promises in order to take what I want . |
| 4 | It is never convincingly argued for ; the neurological and anthropological evidence renders it very doubtful ( see Miller 1971 : 92–120 ) ; it is patently there in order to support what is ultimately an idealist position , for the half-hidden premise of McLuhan 's argument is that there is an ideal human psyche , an essence , which is characterized by balance and interplay of senses , which may once have existed — in oral cultures — but which was destroyed by literacy ( a second Fall ) . |
| 5 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 6 | If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings . |
| 7 | But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens . |
| 8 | It turns out , I think , that he was being purposely more and more removed from us in order to retain whatever Tony DeFries 's idea was of keeping business separate from pleasure . |
| 9 | Children coin many words in the early stages of acquisition in order to fill what , for them , are gaps in the lexicon . |
| 10 | The ‘ state ’ thus becomes literally a bone of contention between opposed interests , both of whom want control over it in order to decide what precisely its role shall be and in whose interest the market shall be managed . |
| 11 | But it 's it 's information that we need or the director general need in order to decide what prices will be set . |
| 12 | So in order to decide what quantity to supply you would have to form an expectation of the average , economy-wide price of the good . |
| 13 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 14 | In practice this may be a very difficult exercise to undertake because in order to decide what is intrinsically just and reasonable the court will surely have to apply some rule of construction . |
| 15 | However , there is authority from cases decided before the 1977 Act that the approach to such clauses is first to construe the contract to define the parties ' obligations without reference to the disputed clause , and then take account of the clause in order to decide what its effect is on those obligations ( see Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) . |
| 16 | General browsing is associated with public library users " who look over books in order to decide which to borrow or read . " |
| 17 | We need a successor operator of some sort that matches the current state against the possible states described by the rules in order to decide which of these should be extended . |
| 18 | In order to describe what is common to all instances of the concept it is necessary to talk in terms of relations within ( or between ) particular totalities which , when taken together , prompt social change . |
| 19 | Or is it that inside all organizations there are , continuously , small discoveries to be made in order to improve what is being done — and that schools do not differ from other organizations ? |
| 20 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 21 | Boutros-Ghali 's written report announced that another UN technical mission would visit Mogadishu in order to assess what UN civilian and military personnel would be needed , to create a local police force which would both disarm the militias and to protect humanitarian agencies . |
| 22 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
| 23 | A reforming government first needs to ‘ stabilise ’ its economy — ie , cut its budget deficit and stop printing money in order to finance whatever deficit remains . |
| 24 | He decided not to appeal in order to highlight what he regards as the absurdity of the law in light of the increasing acceptability of direct and indirect contacts between Israelis and the PLO . |
| 25 | The National Grid was charged with adopting a ‘ merit order ’ of power stations , based on efficiency , in order to fix which power stations were to be used at which times . |
| 26 | More crucially there is little social scientific work to fall back upon , in order to demonstrate what people consider to be prototypical examples of prejudice and discrimination . |
| 27 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 28 | In this motion I have actually requesting that the closure be brought forward in order to relieve what is a dangerous traffic situation at the corner of causeway and . |
| 29 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 30 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |