Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [adj] purpose " 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 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This gives sufficient protection for its ephemeral purpose but , after prolonged wetting , such materials are hopelessly weak , whereas natural celluloses retain a good part of their strength . |
| 6 | The conceptual or lexical meaning is sufficient for its indexical purpose on this occasion . |
| 7 | Since those engaging in a procession were using the highway for its primary purpose of passing and repassing , 7 their use of it was prima facie a protected one . |
| 8 | It might be helpful to take to your solicitor a form of words to cover your gift to ACET and we suggest the following : ‘ To ACET of Paramount House , 71/75 Uxbridge Road , Ealing , London W5 for its general purposes ( one of these alternatives ) : ’ |
| 9 | The crucial experiment on which he placed so much weight was ‘ largely fictitious , newly invented for its present purpose ’ . |
| 10 | It may therefore be suggested that the aim of Article 130R(5) , even though it is not evident from the words used in that provision , is to accept that where the Community has enacted environmental legislation for its internal purposes , it is the Community that has power to negotiate corresponding external agreements . |
| 11 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 12 | Suppose , as was possible , that the person to whom the behaviour was directed had been a heterosexual using the lavatory for its proper purpose . |
| 13 | It would be a wicked waste if it is n't worn for its proper purpose . ’ |
| 14 | This incident concerning the saint is also an example of early Christianity 's adaptation of the old pagan beliefs , with politic foresight , for its own purpose ; and , as already shown , traces of the sacred horse-cult remained in Christian ceremony for centuries after this event recorded by Gibbon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Money raising by the school for its own purposes or for charity is peripheral to the main business of teaching and learning . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The society obtained a valuation for its own purposes , and the lady buyer was charged £36 89p . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First , the electricity supply industry It wants to keep a clear signal path beyond the consumer 's meter for its own purposes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For its own purposes , however , DEC is working on a PEX version of GL for use on its systems . |
| 24 | Politics constantly tended to take over and remould such pre-political elements for its own purposes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The masses are usually characterised by Class 2 residues , which the governing elite has to be able to manipulate for its own purposes . |
| 30 | But the local population was soon assembling at the stations to use the train for its own purposes . |