Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [det] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The owner who " dedicates ' his woodlands binds himself , and his successors in title , not to use the lands so dedicated for any purpose other than forestry — they are managed solely for timber production . |
| 2 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 3 | Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation . |
| 4 | The Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1976 is not designed for that purpose and it is dubious whether it could be used in that way . |
| 5 | — it is also possible to draw on materials not designed for this purpose ; |
| 6 | The land was waste or forage land not used for any purpose other than that to which it was put by the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 8 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 9 | This was in addition to the 6,900,000 million yen already allocated for this purpose in the budget for fiscal 1992 ( ending in March 1993 ) . |
| 10 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |
| 11 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |
| 12 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 13 | The information contained on the questionnaires was then copied to computer input forms specially designed for this purpose . |
| 14 | The intestinal segment , covered by a thin plastic sheet , was placed on a plastic plate specially designed for this purpose . |
| 15 | Two tables have been specially built for this purpose , allowing a large area of carpet to be viewed under daylight bulbs . |
| 16 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 17 | A period of a week will usually suffice for this purpose after which a stock-take is conducted and the level taken as the opening stock . |
| 18 | There , electoral law requires that a constituency candidate shall be chosen by secret ballot either in a meeting of party members specially convened for that purpose , or by an ad hoc committee itself elected by secret ballot ; and party officers must give the returning officer a solemn assurance that these procedures have been observed . |
| 19 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 20 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 21 | The US government 's efforts to create a long-term repository for nuclear waste have received a setback with the announcement that a deep underground salt chamber in New Mexico provisionally selected for this purpose may be close to collapse . |
| 22 | Trichloromethane ( chloroform ) and propanone ( acetone ) are often used for this purpose . |
| 23 | Benzoic acid is often used for this purpose . |
| 24 | The index most often used for this purpose is the General Index of Retail Prices published by the Department of Employment . |
| 25 | Thus in ( 191 ) , to feel evokes a new state of awareness which has arisen as a result of the combined effect on the reader 's mind of novels and tales previously selected for this purpose . |
| 26 | From 822 his itinerary shifted eastwards : in 822 – 3 Louis and his court spent the whole winter at Frankfurt where " he had had buildings newly constructed for this purpose following his orders " . |
| 27 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 28 | If music lovers want to educate themselves , they can do so by learning about music from courses specifically designed for that purpose and from studying musical scores and books about music . |
| 29 | It is not , then , writing per se that has the qualities of explicitness and lack of ambiguity which Olson is attempting to locate , but rather the languages specifically designed for this purpose , of which certain aspects of literacy are a part . |
| 30 | This analogue is ideally suited for this purpose since it removes a hydrogen bond acceptor ( adenine N-3 ) from the minor groove , but maintains the essential Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding scheme . |