Example sentences of "[adv] for this purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 2 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 3 | Among the first to do so for this purpose was Adelard of Bath ( fl 1116–42 ) . |
| 4 | ( A weakness is his habit of repeating lines merely for this purpose : Heine 's Allnächtlich im Traume , not to be compared with Schumann 's setting , suffers badly in this respect . ) |
| 5 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 6 | In some cases , organisationally distinct units were created especially for this purpose . |
| 7 | Some were sent especially for this purpose but they were also an important means of communication and often the back of the postcard is as interesting as the front . |
| 8 | One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process . |
| 9 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 10 | Grade 4 and 5 land is used largely for this purpose although occasional fields of oats , barley or forage crops occur in grade 4 . |
| 11 | Mixtures of the large-flowered kinds are likely to be best for naturalising , as they are often sold in bulk very cheaply for this purpose . |
| 12 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose . |
| 15 | New Oxford Street and Victoria Street in central London were built partly for this purpose . |
| 16 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |
| 21 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 22 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 23 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 24 | Perhaps prehistoric visitors from distant planets erected it here — Space Odyssey style — purely for this purpose ? |
| 25 | This can be done easily using a scalpel blade , an old fashioned razor blade or a small sharp knife which is used solely for this purpose . |
| 26 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 27 | Over the years I have discovered that the subjects I enjoy doing most of all are not far from my home ; my garden , conservatory , figures usually doing something , are my favourites and my family and friends are commandeered regularly for this purpose . |
| 28 | When the States-General had particular items of important business to transact with a foreign state it continued until late in the century to send abroad for this purpose missions recruited from its own members : sometimes as many as sixteen were accredited . |
| 29 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
| 30 | It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that the Danakil attached to this practice , rating as they did a man 's prowess by the number of his kills ; many raids were undertaken principally for this purpose . |