Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] purposes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 2 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |
| 3 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 4 | And the day after Central broadcast a documentary on the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq … revealing how communities are being destroyed … the Prince condemned Saddam Hussein for claiming the marshes are only being drained for agricultural purposes . |
| 5 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 6 | There is apparently no graphological device , whether of spelling , punctuation , capitalization , etc , that can not be exploited for such purposes . |
| 7 | ‘ A mythology can not be created for literary purposes out of whole cloth ; it must be the work of a race . ’ |
| 8 | This latter provision was seen as means to assure NATO that certain Warsaw Pact aircraft could not be used for offensive purposes . |
| 9 | One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes . |
| 10 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 11 | The statute occasionally provides in so many terms that the information may be used in evidence ; sometimes that it may not be used for certain purposes , inferentially permitting its use for others ; or it may be expressly prescribed that the evidence is not to be admitted ; or again , the statute may be silent . |
| 12 | The EP , concerned about moral implications of patenting human and animal life , has supported the Council of Europe efforts , most recently through a joint declaration urging that the Convention should be produced ‘ as speedily as possible ’ and supporting the principle that ‘ the human body should not be used for commercial purposes ’ . |
| 13 | Appendix 1 is the most endangered list , and animals on it may not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 14 | There are about 600 of them , and they can not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 15 | In 1986 the Norwegian government had demanded the return of the water because it suspected that , contrary to the original agreement , it was not being used for peaceful purposes but for the manufacture of plutonium for nuclear weapons [ see p. 36942 ] . |
| 16 | When it is not being used for these purposes it is available for use by other organisations . |
| 17 | A currency that started inflating strongly would rapidly be abandoned for all purposes , except that of paying tax to the government printing it . |
| 18 | A well built unit can always be used for other purposes should your venture not come up to expectation . |
| 19 | Should a leadership value ever be required for comparative purposes then use the value as 10 . |
| 20 | Some 60 per cent of education journeys and 43 per cent of shopping and personal business trips are made on foot , with one fifth and one third of all walk Journeys respectively being made for these purposes . |
| 21 | Once the applicant has put his case , the respondents may adduce their evidence in the above order which should also be followed for cross-examination purposes . |
| 22 | Housing has been built on housing land and industrial land has either been retained for industrial purposes or is being redesignated by the planning process itself . |
| 23 | The owners believe that the buildings are for business and should never be used for recreational purposes , ignoring the enormous publicity that would be generated . |