Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 2 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 3 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 4 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 5 | I note that now they have offered to construct a footway along this small section if you will dedicate the land to them for this purpose . |
| 6 | ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’ |
| 7 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 8 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 9 | The ‘ rich ’ — which for this purpose means the top two-thirds of the population — pay in full for GP consultations and prescriptions ; they also pay £10 a day for hospital stays . |
| 10 | Large industrial and business concerns provide many places for Arts graduates — an expression which for this purpose includes law graduates . |
| 11 | Vessels ( which for this purpose include hovercraft , submersible apparatus and installations in transit ) are prohibited from entering or remaining in the safety zone except with the consent of the Secretary of State or in the circumstances mentioned in Article 2(2) of the Order . ’ |
| 12 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 13 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 14 | An oral contract for supplying a haulage service is just as enforceable as a written one for this purpose . |
| 15 | The bill 's first clause simply states : ‘ The Secretary of State may make arrangements for enabling eligible students to receive loans towards their maintenance out of money made available by him for that purpose . ’ |
| 16 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 17 | And neither should they for those purposes make play with the values and ideals of Co-operation . |
| 18 | ‘ No , absolutely not , though people can take information from it and use it for that purpose if they 're so minded . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely . |
| 20 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 21 | The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes . |
| 22 | We will take the steps necessary to obtain reports and you do not need to approach any doctor yourself for that purpose . |
| 23 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 24 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 25 | UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians . |