Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 2 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 4 | The overall impression resulting from these findings is that emergency services specifically designed for potential attempters might be of benefit to some , but the impulsive nature of the act , and the fact that the attempt often appears to be carried out with a particular purpose not related to help-seeking , but aimed at someone in close proximity , reduces the chances of preventing suicide attempts by this method alone . |
| 5 | However , with God himself at the focus of our lives , we can rise above mere curiosity and focus in on the true purpose for reading the Bible . |
| 6 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 7 | He must no doubt be acting not for the mere purpose of putting money in his pocket , but for some legitimate purpose other than the mere acquisition of money … … . |
| 8 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 9 | ‘ And why on earth should you automatically assume that I came here with the express purpose of blackmail ? ’ |
| 10 | That is to be increased and perhaps there should be an increase in the sentence for hardened criminals going out with a criminal purpose and carrying a knife . |
| 11 | Will any teacher who raises funds in the name of the Society ( even if used immediately for a specific purpose ) please send a brief statement to the Treasurer , as we need to show the extent of our own fundraising in the Annual Report and to the Sports Council . |
| 12 | The company is viewed as an organic body , bound together by a common purpose under the direction of its expert managers . |
| 13 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 15 | This is a hybrid case in Banbury erm the opting out legislation was brought in for a specific purpose . |
| 16 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 17 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 18 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |
| 19 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 20 | Just as teacher secondment is most successful when teachers go out with a specific purpose in mind , so employer secondment works best when employers come into school with a particular task to perform . |
| 21 | Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes . |
| 22 | When each Evangelist recorded the stories about Jesus he did so for a particular purpose . |
| 23 | The international challenge did not meet Martin Lester 's target in full , largely due to the fact that , wherever international representatives attend the major rallies , they do so for the very purpose of demonstrating their national speciality and no other . |
| 24 | Common themes included concern at failure to think through to an underlying purpose — the absence of any rationale . |
| 25 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 26 | So the sociologist seeks concepts among descriptions of initiation rites in non-Christian societies and in all this learns more about the general purposes and beliefs which surround the admission of a young child into the culture into which he or she has been born . |
| 27 | Thus drainage schemes , carried out for the express purpose of intensifying agriculture , converting land from grass to cereals , and ‘ rationalizing ’ hedge and ditch systems , may create further drainage problems in their turn . |
| 28 | Communication : the ability to write and talk appropriately for a particular purpose and audience , and to understand and interpret information through reading and listening . |
| 29 | The ability to write and talk appropriately for a particular purpose and audience , and to understand and interpret information through reading and listening . |
| 30 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |