Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) The setting up of ad hoc sub-committees ( committees set up for one purpose only and disbanded after their task is accomplished ) is a useful technique to make sure that the Hon. |
| 2 | Often these representations are made by the Faculty of the Institute alone , but wherever it is considered beneficial , submissions are made in conjunction with other professional bodies and , indeed , the Tax Faculty is represented on a number of joint bodies set up for this purpose . |
| 3 | However , not all historians set out with this purpose . |
| 4 | In the middle ages the lord of the manor was regarded as legally responsible for the relief of the poor and one-quarter of the church tithes were also customarily set aside for this purpose . |
| 5 | This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 12 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |