Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | The location of the airfields was not logical if they were intended for defensive purposes . |
| 2 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 3 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 4 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that mental qualities that were selected for these purposes should have stood us in such good stead in the very different circumstances of the present day . |
| 6 | of all entries each month to ensure that they were made for legitimate purposes . |
| 7 | No payments were made for political purposes . |
| 8 | During the war these derelict pits were used for various purposes ; Lee 's or Houlder pit became a bomb and ammunition store for the R.A.F. The top pit of Batchelors was used by the Home Guard as a rifle range , and for other weapon training . |
| 9 | Reacting to Ms Ashworth 's claim , BT said it would be appalled if those machines were used for that purpose . |
| 10 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 11 | As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose . |
| 12 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 13 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Only three of Armenia 's fleet of seven helicopters remained , the rest having been shot down by Azerbaijani forces claiming that they were used for military purposes . |
| 15 | During the last century they came to be conducted largely by the police and lawyers instructed by them , who were replaced for most purposes by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 . |
| 16 | So , Special Commissions of the Conference were called for this purpose in 1978 and 1985 . |
| 17 | As public education developed in the middle of the nineteenth century , and as public funds were allocated for this purpose , it was considered that central government should oversee what was taught in schools . |
| 18 | Keeping the building 's historic aspect was not always achieved and as most of the barns were converted for residential purposes it was necessary to pay careful attention to planning and design to retain the original character , and this was not always done . |
| 19 | In addition , branch and class members paid annual capitation subscriptions which were earmarked for three purposes : 20% was retained by the branch , 40% was remitted to the District and the other 40% was forwarded to the National Association . |
| 20 | Mr Scargill says the Soviet pitmen 's present was intended for international purposes , but the Soviet democratic labour movement says it meant to ease the hardship of striking British miners . |
| 21 | DNA information was collected for one purpose many years previously in the case of Ray Williams . |
| 22 | A further $200,000,000 was secured for unspecified purposes by the government . |
| 23 | The evidence given to the Select Committee showed that in Norway and Belgium it was the practice to keep in solitary confinement prisoners ( whether sentenced for murder or for other crimes ) who had not a criminal record , but this method was adopted for reformative purposes and for protecting such prisoners from contamination by other prisoners . |
| 24 | The Crown 's powers of inclosure were greatly limited , and statutory definition was given to the commoners ' rights , which they could freely exercise under the supervision of the verderers : the Court of Verderers was reconstituted for this purpose . |
| 25 | Moore said that the plutonium was used for civil purposes in the US . |
| 26 | Lime was used for agricultural purposes and for making cement . |
| 27 | Whether authentic or not , this material from Manetho and Hecataeus was used for mean purposes of reciprocal abuse . |
| 28 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 29 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 30 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |