Example sentences of "not [verb] for [det] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their categories of structure and événement ( though not designed for these purposes , and thus serving them only crudely ) , allow a place for both holist and individualist explanations without requiring that they should always fit neatly together . |
| 5 | — it is also possible to draw on materials not designed for this purpose ; |
| 6 | The land was waste or forage land not used for any purpose other than that to which it was put by the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 . |