Example sentences of "order to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 2 | In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day . |
| 3 | In that trial the author was defended on the grounds that he had to transgress moral respectability in order to be moral at a deeper , more authentic level dictated by personal conscience . |
| 4 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 5 | The important judicial dignities in Edinburgh attracted a great deal of competitive interest , and men watched the health of the incumbents closely in order to be sure to be first to ask for the vacant place in the event of a death . |
| 6 | The quota is the smallest number of votes the candidate has to get in order to be sure of getting a seat . |
| 7 | A government needs to retain the confidence of the House from year to year in order to be sure of this authorisation . |
| 8 | It can be quite difficult , however , to arrange to film next year 's ice cream commercial this August , in order to be sure of sunshine and leaves on the trees , because decisions on products to be advertised might not be taken until the end of the current season . |
| 9 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |
| 10 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 11 | Rose represented forcibly the necessity she felt of suffering this continual martyrdom in order to be conformable to her divine spouse . |
| 12 | The analysts will have to adhere to the cultural norms of the organisation in order to be successful with their database project . |
| 13 | However , in order to be successful in the long term , you need to learn how to change your eating habits permanently , to suit your own body . |
| 14 | The latter , as Guillaume ( 1964 : 73-86 ) has shown , are verbs whose lexical content is incomplete and requires a lexical supplement from another verb form in order to be usable in discourse . |
| 15 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |
| 16 | By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience . |
| 17 | The point is that individual shareholders , each with a holding insufficient to affect the outcome of the bid , have an incentive to reject the offer to buy their shares in order to be able to ‘ free ride ’ on the efforts of the bidder , if successful . |
| 18 | He was n't an official nominee of this parish council , but he er was a person who attended the meetings and , and in Stuart 's , with Stuart 's resignation from this , because he found it difficult to get to , because of commitments , erm it 's suggested that the parish council might be able to identify one of its number in order to be able to at least continue some erm represent private representation on the Liaison Committee . |
| 19 | In order to be able to , not give |
| 20 | Others feel that double marking is essential in order to be fair to students and external examiners . |
| 21 | Whitehouse considered moral order to be synonymous with Christian moral principles , and therefore any attack on the former was perceived as being an attack on the latter . |
| 22 | In the previous chapter , some conditions that an hypothesis should satisfy in order to be worthy of a scientist 's consideration were mentioned . |
| 23 | Bills must be ‘ accepted ’ ( underwritten ) by a discount house or a reputable bank in order to be eligible to be traded on the market . |
| 24 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 25 | It is vital to have good side mirrors on the car in order to be aware of traffic which is behind or overtaking . |
| 26 | The tactics workers adopt are often versatile and frequently covert , so that an intimate knowledge of a particular place of work might be needed in order to be aware of resistance going on . |
| 27 | Rejecting a federalized party , he asserted that the CPSU should remain unified in order to be true to Lenin 's concept of an internationalist party acting as a force to cement the multinational Soviet state . |
| 28 | We need to consider the possible question with pupils , especially as so many are de-religionized anyway , of whether religion , in order to be true to itself , needs to transcend the " religions " ? |