Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of order " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is no good anyone complaining about the state of affairs in the world if they can not get their own town into some semblance of order . |
| 32 | Here , after all , was a President prepared to take the economy seriously and to begin the long process of hauling it back into some semblance of order . |
| 33 | I did succeed a bit in keeping some degree of order , asking clarifying questions , and clearing up misunderstandings . |
| 34 | I do little but rest and try to put this house into some sort of order but as yet there is neither pleasure nor profit in it . |
| 35 | The first folio volume of Sloane 's Natural History of Jamaica was published in 1707 , the delay of the second , until eighteen years later being due , he explained , to the demands of his busy practice in Bloomsbury ( he also attended the Royal Family ) and to putting his vast collections into some sort of order . |
| 36 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 37 | Ramsay did what he could to try to keep his men in some sort of order , or at least in touch with each other and himself , but this proved to be scarcely feasible . |
| 38 | Sociable Dorothy , although only seventeen years old , managed to infuse some sort of order into Isobel 's shattered life , hoping that soon Isobel would decide what she would do in the future , so that she herself could go back home to Wales , which , from the vantage point of Tollemarche , seemed infinitely cosy and desirable . |
| 39 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 40 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 41 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 42 | unc The order of elements does not matter but it is useful to list the elements in some sort of order . |
| 43 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 44 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 45 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 46 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 47 | The quiet , tedious activity helped to get some of his chaotic impressions from the evening into some sort of order . |
| 48 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 49 | She nodded , and tugging her clothes back into some sort of order , she went to the door . |
| 50 | We might be able to pack , put one or two things into some sort of order . |
| 51 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 52 | Men-at-arms , wearing the royal livery of Scotland , attempted to impose some form of order but the situation was not improved by a horde of courtiers standing around also issuing their instructions to a vast army of retainers all wearing different liveries . |