Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] purposes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are helped to meet expenditure through grants from central government , their monies are prescribed for specific purposes . |
| 2 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 3 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 4 | The IAEA wants to be there to check whether fuel rods have been removed in the past , and to ensure that the spent fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 5 | These doubts are not examined for academic purposes , nor are they treated in a critical way . |
| 6 | However , formative uses of criterion-referencing , given for diagnostic purposes for example , and at the convenience of the teacher rather than of the scheme , may be very valuable in a classroom . |
| 7 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 8 | And the day after Central broadcast a documentary on the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq … revealing how communities are being destroyed … the Prince condemned Saddam Hussein for claiming the marshes are only being drained for agricultural purposes . |
| 9 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 10 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 11 | However , techniques that are developed for theoretical purposes or for other applications may have relevance to the present project , and this is indicated where appropriate . |
| 12 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 13 | The Council of Ministers said on May 26 that " certain levels " of the movement were " using for political purposes … working people 's fair economic demands " . |
| 14 | There were therefore , 375 patients referred for diagnostic purposes . |
| 15 | It was also skilfully manipulated for political purposes . |
| 16 | The symbolism which these involved , and which was indeed their essence , was frequently manipulated for political purposes . |
| 17 | The carriage of goods for a subsidiary or for a holding company and for other companies which are subsidiaries of the same holding company is generally regarded as own account for these purposes . |
| 18 | Mr Scargill says the Soviet pitmen 's present was intended for international purposes , but the Soviet democratic labour movement says it meant to ease the hardship of striking British miners . |
| 19 | The location of the airfields was not logical if they were intended for defensive purposes . |
| 20 | Both the defendants and the Bank of England , while not expressly acknowledging the link , invite the court to proceed for present purposes on the assumption that without the defendants ' breach the Bank of England would not have issued the section 39 notice in its present form . |
| 21 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 22 | 2.7 If at any time any Works are carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Building Documents and this fact might [ reasonably ] have been expected to be apparent on visual inspection to the Surveyors on the first occasion following the carrying out of the relevant Works on which they actually inspected the same pursuant to clause 2.5 ( " Relevant Inspection " ) then unless within [ 5 ] working days after the date of the Relevant Inspection ( time being of the essence ) the Surveyors have served on the Architect a Defects Notice in respect of such non-compliance the relevant Works shall be treated for all purposes of this agreement as having been carried out in accordance with the Building Documents This provision should be deleted . |
| 23 | The general principal of article eight B two of the Maastricht treaty is that non-national residents in member state should be treated for electoral purposes in the same way as the nationals of that state . |
| 24 | As demonstrated , a percentage per annum return can be calculated for comparative purposes with other types of financial investment . |
| 25 | There may be some who find it relaxing to make some test-tubes or cut out some filter-papers ; and apparatus to investigate previously unsuspected effects must be made from scratch , or assembled opportunistically from things designed for old purposes ; but ready availability of apparatus is an enormous bonus to the scientist , and the growth of science led to a flourishing trade . |
| 26 | Their categories of structure and événement ( though not designed for these purposes , and thus serving them only crudely ) , allow a place for both holist and individualist explanations without requiring that they should always fit neatly together . |
| 27 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 28 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |
| 29 | It , too , is based on a detailed classification of occupations ( similar , though not identical , to those of the OPCS ) , which are grouped for many purposes into three social classes : |
| 30 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |