Example sentences of "for [det] purpose " in BNC.

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1 We asked respondents to assess the usefulness of each source for each purpose by giving it a ‘ mark out of ten ’ .
2 About what proportion of the National Park is used for each purpose ?
3 But although long-nets have a number of uses the nets are exactly the same for each purpose .
4 In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight .
5 To prevent the spread of infection ( and because we live in a throw-away society ) disposable needles are often used , although if your dog requires prolonged treatment your vet may keep a ‘ permanent ’ set especially for that purpose .
6 For that purpose he had to determine whether they formed part of a highway .
7 ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said .
8 Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings .
9 For that purpose he went to Edward Wynn .
10 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 . ’
11 For that purpose Mr Houphouet , who is at least 85 , brought forward to June the five-yearly congress of the ruling party that is his personal tool .
12 The husband will be presumed , in the ordinary case where husband and wife live together , and she orders goods to meet the household needs , to have authorized her to pledge his credit for that purpose , unless he has supplied her with sufficient ready money .
13 ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley .
14 As it is the ratepayer who funds and owns Council facilities , the DUP believes that any change to Sunday opening of Council provisions should only be undertaken following the test of the electorate 's opinion in a local poll held for that purpose in the district of the council .
15 The paper was ‘ embellished with drafts of the building and kilns erected for that purpose ’ , and these were reproduced in the Dictionary .
16 If you have taken the recommended Norwich Union insurance cover you must make an insurance claim under the Legal Expenses section in respect of any legal fees incurred abroad for that purpose , and if you have taken alternative insurance , you must do likewise under any Legal Expenses cover provided by it .
17 But it seems that if it is valid for that purpose , it must be valid for morality generally .
18 Not all the other dancers were in sympathy with the intellectual attitudes of John and his friends , either , but he needed all the intellectual stimulation he could get because , although his work as a dancer was meant to help him develop as a choreographer , the repertory was far from ideal for that purpose .
19 In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose .
20 Before that , the control-room operator , facing the blank wall beyond which was the studio , would pound heavily against the plaster wall with the monkey wrench provided on the table for that purpose .
21 A single line railway ran from St George 's to Kelly 's Island , the full length of the colony , and many Bermudians brought their bicycles part of the way to town on the flat-cars attached to the train for that purpose .
22 Today , although sheep and goats roam on ranges set aside specifically for that purpose , escapees still damage the vegetation but to a much lesser extent .
23 A local authority , once satisfied that an odour amounts to a statutory nuisance is under a duty to serve an abatement notice in accordance with s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 on the person whose act , default or sufferance gave rise to the nuisance or caused it to continue , requiring that person , in a specified time , usually two to six months , to abate the nuisance and to execute such remedial works and take such steps as may be necessary for that purpose .
24 to prohibit the recurrence of the nuisance and to require any works to be executed which are necessary for that purpose .
25 To raise funds for the buildings , it was resolved that ‘ friends of the Institution should be requested to lend money on interest at three per cent per annum — the principal to be repaid as soon as funds of the College were found sufficient for that purpose ’ .
26 It was proposed that the College should attempt systematically to buy in diseased animals , perhaps appointing a special member of staff for that purpose , but nothing came of this , nor of a linked suggestion that students ' fees should be increased to allow relevant staff increases .
27 The Act regulates the use of automatically processed information about living , identifiable individuals ( personal data ) which is held on computers and other ‘ equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose ’ .
28 ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’
29 It is vital that they must by some means or other plant the seed of conscience in the young from the very beginning of life , and until some better means can be found , fear and reward must be available to parents for that purpose .
30 The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose .
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