Example sentences of "some [noun sg] of order " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 2 | The Chairmaster , grave , imposing , and bald as a biscuit , apart from the red wig , adhering by a miracle to his left ear , was attempting to give some kind of order to the proceedings . |
| 3 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 4 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 5 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 6 | This chapter is an attempt to sort these various pro- and anti-classical elements in to some kind of order . |
| 7 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 8 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 9 | A hierarchy exists when there is a system of people or things ranked into some kind of order . |
| 10 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 11 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 12 | In every day life we group things into sets without really thinking about it , to find some kind of order , or pattern which will help us to arrange and organise what we have to do . |
| 13 | Surely the bundles must be in some kind of order . |
| 14 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 15 | She sat down , pushing ill-wrapped parcels into some kind of order under her chair . |
| 16 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 17 | Still clinging to the maxim that work , particularly physical labour , could eclipse mental turmoil , she had gone out , determined to wrest some kind of order from the chaos of neglect . |
| 18 | For example , if you believe in religion , you believe that the world and life has some kind of order and meaning . |
| 19 | And she said : ‘ I have spent all my money on getting the house into some kind of order . |
| 20 | This reader did not know whether to be more depressed by the carefully presented statistics , or the faint praise offered to bus managements for their efforts to rescue some kind of order from a rising tide of chaos . |
| 21 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 22 | He turned his attention to the troops , who under the quick thinking extemporisation of their Sergeant were once again in some semblance of order . |
| 23 | Seymour 's task is to wobble his weary way through the studios , returning scripts , cheering up bimbos , and generally returning his Hollywood hell hole into some semblance of order . |
| 24 | And , clenching her teeth and her jaw , digging strong , pointed nails into the soft undersides of her arms , she slowly gathered herself , through pain and concentration , into some semblance of order . |
| 25 | At the other extreme , I can elect to work with and respond to those who give evidence of wishing to work mathematically , and simply keep some semblance of order amongst the rest . |
| 26 | Within thirty seconds they were all sitting , if not working , with some semblance of order . |
| 27 | He had the events at Godstowe in some semblance of order . |
| 28 | It was only 50 years since the first white settlement had been established at Port Jackson , and , although some semblance of order and ‘ civilisation ’ existed in the larger towns like Sydney , many of the outposts were still dangerous places to visit . |
| 29 | Brushing her hair back , she sat at the desk , trying to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order . |
| 30 | Sorting her wildly scattered thoughts into some semblance of order seemed far more imperative … |