Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 2 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 3 | These doubts are not examined for academic purposes , nor are they treated in a critical way . |
| 4 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 5 | Two tables have been specially built for this purpose , allowing a large area of carpet to be viewed under daylight bulbs . |
| 6 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 7 | Trichloromethane ( chloroform ) and propanone ( acetone ) are often used for this purpose . |
| 8 | Some buildings , such as milking parlours and farm workshops , are fully used for one purpose throughout the year ; others , such as hay barns and Shearing sheds are not . |
| 9 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |
| 10 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 11 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 12 | Most of the chairs , however , were not subject to such private patronage , but they were still employed for political purposes , though usually on a somewhat higher political level than Dempster intended . |
| 13 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 14 | The IAEA wants to be there to check whether fuel rods have been removed in the past , and to ensure that the spent fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 15 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 16 | Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation . |
| 17 | The Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1976 is not designed for that purpose and it is dubious whether it could be used in that way . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the contrast is best made for introductory purposes by thinking about the middle of the range , where individuals take the stage in a social capacity , as , for instance , Prime Minister or Secretary of State . |
| 19 | Lime is extensively used for agricultural purposes , especially in the parishes of Churchstoke and Chirbury , which is brought from Llanymynech , either by the Cambrian and then carted from Montgomery Station , or else it is sent via Oswestry , Shrewsbury , and Craven Arms and carted from Bishop 's Castle . |
| 20 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 21 | The benefits of this are dubious , specially as it is often used for electoral purposes with destabilising inflationary effects for the domestic economy . |
| 22 | Benzoic acid is often used for this purpose . |
| 23 | This analogue is ideally suited for this purpose since it removes a hydrogen bond acceptor ( adenine N-3 ) from the minor groove , but maintains the essential Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding scheme . |
| 24 | The published statistics are therefore retained for this purpose , but , as one company commented , their use is , however , so infrequent that it has difficulty in locating the relevant data when they are needed ! |
| 25 | Once a church it has now been cleverly converted for recreational purposes . |
| 26 | Electric lighting too , though disliked by Haussmann because of its coldness and considered by him as suitable only for illuminating building works at night , was nevertheless used for decorative purposes . |
| 27 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 28 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 29 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 30 | The symbolism which these involved , and which was indeed their essence , was frequently manipulated for political purposes . |