Example sentences of "for [det] [adj] purposes " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In fact , for some industrial purposes , the rods are reeled on large diameter drums and can be made automatically without supervision . |
| 2 | Stroboscopic vision " sampling " at the bat 's cruising rate of about 10 samples per second would be nearly as good as normal " continuous ' vision for some ordinary purposes , though not for catching a ball or an insect . |
| 3 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 4 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 5 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |
| 6 | It could well be that for some musical purposes the above result may contain too great an element of consonance in the form of triads . |
| 7 | This is a good system for some educational purposes — for example the provision of inserts to lectures — but it does not always give the user the control of the machine which makes video such an effective tool in language teaching . |
| 8 | The reluctance of UK Authorities to sanction their release — for such agricultural purposes as extending the range of plants which harbour nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots — is understandable . |
| 9 | The scientists ' work confirmed their initial suspicions : that the undoubted improvement in parachuting ability was a fortuitous result of the development of the fringes for these other purposes . |
| 10 | Had the Act succeeded , the damage to the reputation of judicial institutions would have been considerable ; but it was always highly probable that this attempt to use the judges for these political purposes would fail . |
| 11 | Money balances held for these two purposes are called active balances : money to be used as a medium of exchange . |
| 12 | First , the fitness of purpose envisaged is a fitness not just for one or some of the purposes to which the goods are commonly put , but a fitness for all such purposes . |
| 13 | He also says that the nickel content does not , for all practical purposes , make any difference to the hardness , but that it does make it more stain resistant . |
| 14 | What is remarkable about the present sterling crisis is that the Government — and for all practical purposes , that means the Prime Minister — has declined to tackle any of them . |
| 15 | For all practical purposes in traffic it does not matter which gear is engaged and there is never any lack of overtaking power . ’ |
| 16 | For all practical purposes the republican leadership saw its movement as being in a phase of activity which would concentrate on non-violent , political agitation . |
| 17 | As a rule of thumb , when d s get down much below 0.05 , we can regard them as so small that they might just be a sampling fluke ; we will conclude that for all practical purposes there is no effect of one variable upon another , and erase arrows with very small path coefficients from our model . |
| 18 | Western security is for all practical purposes , non-existent , at least in the view of Russian diplomats who have served in the West . |
| 19 | Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us . |
| 20 | The fee paid to the surrogate mother is thought to degrade not only her , but also the child , ‘ since for all practical purposes the child will have been bought for money ’ . |
| 21 | Although the auditors ' report was addressed to ‘ the members ’ of Berg , it was for all practical purposes addressed to G alone . |
| 22 | So for practical controlled fusion on Earth , protons alone are useless ; for all practical purposes , two protons ‘ can not fuse ’ . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , when the Report was published , the Federation 's leaders were far from satisfied : ‘ For all practical purposes , the Beveridge Report is useless … and we had better ignore it entirely , concentrating on action which will secure our just rights — AND NOW — not at some vague future time . ’ |
| 24 | In effect , for all practical purposes , modern western man assumes that the human race is thrown upon its own resources to cope with life and discover what meaning , if any , it may have . |
| 25 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 26 | The same good pay and conditions also coincided with the equal opportunities legislation which declared , in essence , that for all practical purposes there is no difference between the sexes . |
| 27 | The ‘ free ’ person and the person who acts from an unknowable constellation of causes are difficult to distinguish ; the problem of explaining their behaviour is , for all practical purposes , the same . |
| 28 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 29 | In the result , Co-operation seen as an exclusive alternative to Capitalism as the means of organising society for the production of wealth was , for all practical purposes , abandoned ; and abandoned with it was trade unionism seen as the means by which capitalism was to be displaced by Co-operation . |
| 30 | It pointed instead to a new meritocracy indistinguishable for all practical purposes from the old autocracy , but writ sometimes smaller , sometimes larger . |