Example sentences of "for [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , even though they may for professional purposes , guarantee their subjects ' anonymity in return for access , they nevertheless stress that behind the ‘ sources in Whitehall ’ or ‘ the people of Hicktown ’ there are indeed real people ; thus establishing both their veracity and their morality . |
| 2 | At an Oscar type ceremony , an award winner decides to use his international platform for political purposes by asking a member of Sinn Fein to collect the award for him . |
| 3 | In the wake of this violence the National government pushed forward with the Public Order Act which , among other clauses , prohibited the wearing of uniforms for political purposes in public places or at meetings . |
| 4 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 5 | Furthermore , Miss Massiter explained that information gathered by MI5 was shared with other government departments for political purposes and gave examples of how trade-union leaders had their telephones tapped by MI5 during wage negotiations with government departments . |
| 6 | Members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee and the Working Commission to Investigate the use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes have been silenced through imprisonment or exile . |
| 7 | It found that the prohibition of public meetings for political purposes , the requirement of permission from the police authority to hold such meetings in private and the authorisation of the military authority for the holding of indoor lectures were not consistent with Article 11 . |
| 8 | Here was a march for political purposes with racial characteristics and though legal and provided with police protection , it was to become the subject of great protest before it began . |
| 9 | We can even see pseudo-ethnic groups being invented for political purposes , as in the attempt by some of the British left to classify all third-world immigrants as ‘ black ’ in order to give them more leverage within the Labour Party for which most of them vote . |
| 10 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 11 | For political purposes to the Conservative Party : £2,000 ( 1984 £2,000 ) |
| 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 | It was also skilfully manipulated for political purposes . |
| 14 | It was a matter of real concern that the divisional court , exercising the power of judicial review , was increasingly … being used for political purposes superficially dressed up as points of law . |
| 15 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 16 | First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes . |
| 17 | Claims have been made about Taiwan and South Korea , but tremendous amounts of US aid have been pumped into those countries for political purposes . |
| 18 | What the public would like to know is whether the Opposition , including the hon. Member for Cunninghame , North and the Front-Bench spokesman , the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , were aware that that document was not a genuine document , but was something prepared , no doubt , for political purposes . |
| 19 | The Council of Ministers said on May 26 that " certain levels " of the movement were " using for political purposes … working people 's fair economic demands " . |
| 20 | As approved by parliament in May , he complained , the legislation was " too complicated " , would create a fragmented parliament , and discriminated against the Catholic church ( by forbidding the use of church property for political purposes ) and against Poles abroad . |
| 21 | Although the Roman Catholic Church was debarred from using church property for political purposes , the Polish Episcopate urged believers in pastoral letters read out in churches on Sept. 29 and Oct. 20 to take part in the elections and , while not mentioning parties by name , to support candidates who espoused " Christian values " . |
| 22 | [ As in previous years , BP group companies made no donations for political purposes , as defined in the Companies Act 1985 . ] |
| 23 | No payments were made for political purposes . |
| 24 | The symbolism which these involved , and which was indeed their essence , was frequently manipulated for political purposes . |
| 25 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 26 | MPs are allowed to use headed paper for political purposes as well as constituency matters but they must pay for any stationery used . |
| 27 | Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved . |
| 28 | Most of the existing pilot sites have opted for a fairly large-scale computer-based system with a central system that stores for case-mix purposes , the data from a number of locally based feeder units . |
| 29 | We asked respondents to assess the usefulness of each source for each purpose by giving it a ‘ mark out of ten ’ . |
| 30 | About what proportion of the National Park is used for each purpose ? |