Example sentences of "[adj] for the purpose [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unnecessary for the purpose of this case to determine whether that decision is or is not correct : I will assume ( without expressing any view on the point ) that it is . |
| 2 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 3 | The applicants contemplate use of the procedures in sections 234 to 236 of the Act of 1986 for the purpose of obtaining information , but those powers are only available to the applicants if they are ‘ office holders , ’ a term defined as including administrative receivers : see section 234(1) of the Act of 1986 . |
| 4 | All too often , resort is made to the standard measures of housing deprivation which are easily available from the Census , without any apparent consideration of whether these are sufficiently specific for the purpose at hand . |
| 5 | 6.1 For the purpose of accounting for the royalties payable under clause 5.3.2 , there shall be four accounting periods of three ( 3 ) months each ending on the last day of each calendar quarter , ie 31 March , 30 June , 30 September and 31 December in each year . |
| 6 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 7 | I can see that for the purpose of our movie any relationship between Claudia and Tepilit will have to be clouded in romanticism . |
| 8 | ( a ) Contents of the Register The Central Land Charges Register , like the Local Land Charges Register , was established under the Land Charges Act 1925 for the purpose of protecting various interests of a less parochial nature than the Local Land Charges Registers . |
| 9 | But rather than simply using this for the purpose of political comment in a static model of the communication process , the rationale behind its retention here is that there are real and important differences between these two groups and their relationships , and work , with the media . |
| 10 | ( 'You have to attain a high degree of musical stupidity in order to find watching the beat , or the conductor 's inane face for that matter , easier for the purpose of knowing how or when to play than simply listening to the music , ’ he argued . ) |
| 11 | Therefore , my Lords , I am willing for the purpose of argument to treat the word ‘ appropriates ’ as ambiguous in its context and , on that basis , following the principles enunciated in Black-Clawson International Ltd. v. Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg A.G. [ 1975 ] A.C. 591 and the example of Lord Ackner in Reg. v. Kassim [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 9 , 16 , where the construction of section 20(2) of the Act of 1968 was the question at issue , I turn , for such guidance as it may afford , to the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on Theft and Related Offences . |
| 12 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 13 | The minimum period of experience in an architect 's office acceptable for the purpose of the practical training scheme was reduced from five to three months . |
| 14 | When the non-school element of education and training after 16 is , in 1993 , placed in a different part of the education system — even if it is only different for the purpose of separate funding — care will have to be taken not to lose the benefit of previous links . |
| 15 | The gaps between were filled with people looking for seats , with others exchanging seats , and with some who had simply observed friends in other parts of the room and were on their way from one table to another for the purpose of making conversation . |
| 16 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 17 | Any part of the cost of a development which is attributable to plant and machinery will generally qualify for a 25% annual allowance if it is used for the purchaser 's trade or leased by the purchaser to another for the purpose of the other 's trade . |
| 18 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 20 | If you countersign this letter in agreement , we will treat you as such for the purpose of regulated work which may arise in the course of future assignments . |
| 21 | For the majority of the public the health service is only accessible for the purpose of treatment . |
| 22 | In Essex and Suffolk the rebels were sufficiently acquainted with the structure of local government to use the machinery of the hundreds for the purpose of mobilization ( 78 , p.217 ) . |
| 23 | I shall , however , be content for the purpose of this appeal to adopt the narrow approach , which avoids the need to discuss the proper scope of the rule , a point which has not been argued before your Lordships and has hitherto been seriously discussed only by the academic writers . |
| 24 | We went on to the villa which had been requisitioned for the Bologna branch of the Allied Screening Commission : like all the villas requisitioned by Germans and members of the Allied forces alike , it was far too splendid for the purpose to which they put it . |
| 25 | The sellers were in breach of the implied condition that the hopper would be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyers required it . |
| 26 | The court sidestepped the question of whether it was a contract of sale or for services , by holding that , whichever it was , there was an implied term of the contract that the goods should be reasonably fit for the purpose for which they were intended . |
| 27 | However , although they were worth less on the open market than if they had been in ‘ good ’ condition , they were still fit for the purpose for which the buyer wanted them ( making into cattle food ) and were still so upon arrival . |
| 28 | It is at the time of delivery that the goods must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyer indicated he wanted them . |
| 29 | Clearly , the farmer had been supplied with a coupling which was not reasonably fit for the purpose for which he had indicated he wanted it . |
| 30 | The product is not of merchantable quality and it is not fit for the purpose for which it was sold . |