Example sentences of "for [pron] own purposes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have twisted them round for my own purposes , changing the emphasis , blending them with ideas of my own and of other people . |
| 2 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 3 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 4 | It will augment the Commission 's power to tinker around with the European economy for its own purposes , or in the interest of its more powerful members . |
| 5 | Money raising by the school for its own purposes or for charity is peripheral to the main business of teaching and learning . |
| 6 | It promoted economic activities to free or create resources for its own purposes , bribed and was bribed , all with the continuing preoccupation of creating an independent public force , loyal solely to the Crown , and of an effectiveness capable of matching any rival force in Europe . |
| 7 | The society obtained a valuation for its own purposes , and the lady buyer was charged £36 89p . |
| 8 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 9 | First , the electricity supply industry It wants to keep a clear signal path beyond the consumer 's meter for its own purposes . |
| 10 | Hollywood hoped that it would use immigrant directors for its own purposes but whatever the frustrations experienced by these foreigners the mere fact that they were working in the American film industry is a reminder that Hollywood was never as monolithic and stereotyped as its critics implied . |
| 11 | ICL — which also wants a Sun port for its own purposes — will initially have the product to itself , but other ports will follow , and other TP monitors , such as Top End and Encina , are also being considered ‘ although we pretty much have our hands full at the moment ’ , says Nierenberg . |
| 12 | For its own purposes , however , DEC is working on a PEX version of GL for use on its systems . |
| 13 | Politics constantly tended to take over and remould such pre-political elements for its own purposes . |
| 14 | If the field of strategic management is to render the concept of strategic vision suitable for its own purposes it must deal with it in a unique way . |
| 15 | In consequence , it was submitted , the relevant action was taken not by the society , the report was not required by the society for its own purposes and was thus not in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance , and a report negligently prepared could not constitute maladministration or a breach of the society 's obligations under any contract . |
| 16 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 17 | The Green movement has appropriated the term ‘ ecology ’ for its own purposes by pretending that anyone aware of the complexity of the interactions between species must be concerned to preserve the natural balance . |
| 18 | The masses are usually characterised by Class 2 residues , which the governing elite has to be able to manipulate for its own purposes . |
| 19 | But the local population was soon assembling at the stations to use the train for its own purposes . |
| 20 | The proposal foundered on British and American fears that the Soviet Union wanted , for its own purposes , to provoke another civil war in Spain and that it would seek to manipulate any Security Council debate to that end . |
| 21 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 22 | ‘ Now information that a school used to retain for its own purposes is becoming part of the public domain . |
| 23 | What more tinkering will come in the future as the television men seek to change sport for its own purposes ? |
| 24 | In a detailed study of the Stormont archives , Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson ( 1979 ) have shown that there were indeed different currents within the Stormont administration but the ones which predominated belonged to those among the ruling protestant classes who were bent on preservation of the status quo for their own purposes , including their own dominance of the protestant alliance as well as their particular sectional interests . |
| 25 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 26 | Through such media as TV , radio and the cinema , for instance , they will see and hear an abundance of information which they will need to evaluate and use judiciously for their own purposes . |
| 27 | The development officers also prepared forms for their own purposes : assessment forms , case records , and monthly action report forms for discussion with their supervisor . |
| 28 | Two planning departments not only scan for their own purposes but offer an information service to the business units . |
| 29 | It is not uncommon for one parent to ‘ use ’ the child 's illness for their own purposes in these domestic problems . |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone 's got to be a Mary Whitehouse , there are too many hypocrites using football for their own purposes , ’ he said before the Sheffield derby that is Sky 's live game tomorrow . |