Example sentences of "for [adj] purposes [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 However , for normal purposes they are perfectly adequate and offer the best solution for the home or small business user who can not afford the more professional systems .
2 Keeping the building 's historic aspect was not always achieved and as most of the barns were converted for residential purposes it was necessary to pay careful attention to planning and design to retain the original character , and this was not always done .
3 For different purposes we find it convenient to use words in different senses .
4 If the exchange suspects that a trade has been effected for improper purposes it must investigate this .
5 For theoretical purposes it is sometimes convenient to think of the average as an ensemble average ; i.e. one considers a large number of identical systems and takes the average of the velocity at corresponding instants over all these systems .
6 However , research on Indian students learning English suggests that to learn the language for commercial purposes it may also be effective to have instrumental motivation .
7 For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes .
8 For some purposes they might be , for others ( particularly in their general lack of women students ) they could be quite misleading .
9 For some purposes it is appropriate to use blocks and lines to indicate the flow of energy or material and to indicate all the ways in which the human operator can affect this flow .
10 For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals .
11 However , with some materials and for some purposes it could be worth considering .
12 There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum mechanics : for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles .
13 Saettler traces programmed learning back to Montessori , but for ordinary purposes it is to B. F. Skinner that we must turn for the initiation of the programmed learning movement as such .
14 For these purposes we will look at experimental observations with a particular system that provides effective illustrations .
15 For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind .
16 For these purposes he could use one of three methods .
17 The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up .
18 When it is not being used for these purposes it is available for use by other organisations .
19 The value-shifting and depreciatory transactions provisions in ss32 and 176 TCGA 1992 should be considered , and for these purposes it is necessary to distinguish two possible scenarios .
20 For present purposes we may turn directly to societies in which the most significant relations were already vertically structured .
21 For present purposes we need not worry about the complexity and the names of the various components in the retina if only we can answer the following question : What does a single one of these ganglion cells tell the brain about the image falling on the photoreceptors to which it connects ?
22 For present purposes we can conclude that Trotsky looked to proletarian democracy as a defence against bureaucratization .
23 Some comments on this score have been made above ( in particular , see the final section of the Introduction ) ; for present purposes I can summarise my view of these objectives as follows :
24 For present purposes I shall consider again , as briefly as I can , the impact of the two later cases on the earlier Torfaen case ( Case 145/88 ) [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B .
25 For present purposes it suffices to concentrate on two important aspects of the diagram , the discretion-deduction spectrum and the nature of the ‘ ought ’ .
26 But for present purposes it really does n't matter which if either of them is the right definition .
27 There is much abstruse learning on the subject ( see , in particular , the illuminating discussion by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 139–142 ) , but for present purposes it is not , I think , necessary for us to concern ourselves with this point of classification .
28 For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances .
29 For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction .
30 For present purposes it does not appear to matter ; the word ‘ appropriate ’ does not on either interpretation acquire the meaning contended for by the Crown .
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