Example sentences of "drinking purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water is extracted for drinking purposes from many of our lowland rivers , and high nitrate levels in drinking-water can lead to illness in bottle-fed babies . |
| 2 | Recognising the problem , The Scottish Office is funding a research programme at Dundee University to provide ‘ a better understanding of the potential health hazards … in waters used for recreational and drinking purposes . ’ |
| 3 | The water authority will reject applications for the use of septic tanks when absorption tests are unsatisfactory or where the siting of the tank could result in pollution to a spring , stream or well used for drinking purposes . |
| 4 | For drinking purposes , he concluded that well-water , with possibilities of immediate pollution , was less desirable than river water , with its natural processes for purification . |
| 5 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 6 | The reason for this is simple : at least one tap must always be supplied directly from the mains for drinking purposes and this is usually the cold tap in the kitchen . |
| 7 | In 1898 the Corporation was debating whether or not to close the Tubwell Row pump even though an analyst had condemned it as ‘ absolutely unfit for drinking purposes ’ . |