Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 2 | Of greater significance than the numbers of schools established in 1850 to 1860 is the fact that some of them were founded for the express purpose of teaching deaf children through the Oral System . |
| 3 | They discovered that compromises had to be made between the descriptive criteria of frequency and range of language items and pedagogic criteria which were adduced from the assumed purpose or process of learning ( see Mackey 1965 : Chapter 6 ; Widdowson 1968 : Chapter 1 ) . |
| 4 | This was the case in Ashington Piggeries Ltd v Christopher Hill Ltd ( 1972 ) where cattle food suitable for animals generally was bought for the particular purpose of being fed to mink which turned out to be poisonous to mink . |
| 5 | Radio and television time was bought for the same purpose . |
| 6 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 7 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |
| 8 | As it was , a few years later another similar boat , a Fairy Swordfish , was purchased for the same purpose which in my opinion was a much inferior seaboat . |