Example sentences of "order [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a wedding breakfast in the true sense , the foods breaking the fast we observed in order to go to Holy Communion during the nuptial Mass . |
| 2 | Today , rugs are an important export for most producing countries , and many weaving groups have consciously broadened their palette in order to appeal to Western tastes . |
| 3 | The usual sequence of reading aloud in order to progress to silent reading is in this case reversed — children select and prepare , as a result of silent reading , to read aloud to others . |
| 4 | Eight water companies are to install a total of 79 treatment plants to remove pesticides from drinking water in England and Wales , in order to conform to European Community standards by 1995 . |
| 5 | So agriculture will have to play a role in that and therefore we want to increase agricultural output and in order to do that you want to protect the middle and rich peasants who are the most efficient producers , or I E managerial farms if , if they are more efficient , you want to , if you want it would not make sense to take land away from rich peasants in order to give to poor peasants when rich peasants might be more efficient producers . |
| 6 | Further complexities in place deixis arise if the speaker is in motion — it then becomes quite possible to use temporal terms in order to refer to deictic locations , as in : ( 86 ) I first heard that ominous rattle ten miles ago ( 87 ) There 's a good fast food joint just ten minutes from here This raises the issue about whether time deixis or place deixis is more basic . |
| 7 | During questions on parliamentary business , Mr Davies had demanded : ‘ How can Mr Lilley justify ten times the cost from his holiday home in France in order to return to ministerial meetings at Westminster ? ’ |
| 8 | If we were to accept that societies need to include a diversity of behaviour and belief in order to adapt to new conditions , this could surely be achieved by simply allowing such diversity . |
| 9 | Both Rangers ' and Celtic supporters were organized into ‘ brake clubs ’ in order to travel to away matches . |