Example sentences of "use [prep] the same purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 2 | Radio programmes or ‘ talking book ’ tape recordings can be used for the same purpose . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Following questions in Parliament , the Department of Trade and Industry announced last October that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading UK export controls , and would be restricted . |
| 5 | On 17 October , Mr Sainsbury announced — ‘ in the light of publicity ’ — that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading export control . |
| 6 | This mode is carried forward from the 1954 Convention , and it is expressly provided that ‘ if exceptional circumstances so require ’ diplomatic channels may be used for the same purpose . |
| 7 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
| 8 | Sometimes a donkey would be used for the same purpose . |
| 9 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 10 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |