Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] purposes " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 2 | The decision came after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan 's nuclear programme was being designed exclusively for peaceful purposes . |
| 3 | Where there are several similar teams meeting separately for identical purposes publish the comparative costs of the respective meetings and again insist that these are halved |
| 4 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 5 | When a recording of a student performance is done mainly for motivational purposes , the language learning objectives are achieved through the performance of the task itself . |
| 6 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 7 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 8 | Miscue analysis is a way of listening to children read aloud for diagnostic purposes , originated by Kenneth Goodman ( 1969 ) , and incorporating a psycholinguistic approach . |
| 9 | Currently , however , graduated assessment is being used more for formative purposes internal to a school where wrong decisions do not have such serious consequences . |
| 10 | The examples used should be realistic and relevant to the pupils concerned Emphasis should also be given to the way in which percentages are used both for comparative purposes in many everyday situations and also as a numerical measure based on a 100-point scale of reference . |
| 11 | Some of the poorest public houses have been closed and some are used now for non-licensed purposes . |
| 12 | Computers are used increasingly for commercial purposes . |
| 13 | Tinning was used either for decorative purposes , for example on Merovingian jewellery , or for more practical purposes , such as providing a reflecting face on Roman bronze mirrors . |
| 14 | Used previously for promotional purposes , companies with several offices throughout the UK are taking the entertainment to their clients as a more effective means of reaching them . |
| 15 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 16 | He could seldom resist an invitation to address a learned society , a university , a county or regional association , a professional body , indeed any gathering of apparently public-spirited gentlemen brought together for non-commercial purposes . |
| 17 | The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private , since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes , and no longer functioned as thoroughfares . |
| 18 | Occasionally other teachers who wanted to take " a cautious look " were brought in for specific purposes . |
| 19 | This restriction to particular ‘ niches ’ in the environment is the result of a partitioning out of competing species over a limited range of resources ; each comes to live in the portion of a habitat it can exploit best for reproductive purposes . |
| 20 | In contrast , before the Second World war , British civil industry was a leader in products such as radios and cathode-ray tubes which could be adapted quickly for military purposes . |
| 21 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 22 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |
| 23 | Although the purposes for hearing children read are beginning to be more clearly thought out , the use of reading aloud for communicative purposes has probably decreased . |
| 24 | The Acquisition of Land ( Assessment of Compensation ) Act 1919 provided by s. 2 for the assessment of compensation in respect of land acquired compulsorily for public purposes according to certain rules . |
| 25 | ( NB " Domicile " is defined specifically for these purposes by ss 41 – 46 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 . ) |
| 26 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 28 | The original titles should , said the minister , be retained only for statutory purposes . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes . |
| 30 | Municipal corporations , however , exist primarily for governmental purposes , and they are permitted to enter the commercial field solely for the purpose of subserving the interests of the public which they represent . |