Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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1 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
2 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
3 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
4 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
5 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
6 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |