Example sentences of "[be] [adv] used for [adj] purpose " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Trichloromethane ( chloroform ) and propanone ( acetone ) are often used for this purpose .
3 Some buildings , such as milking parlours and farm workshops , are fully used for one purpose throughout the year ; others , such as hay barns and Shearing sheds are not .
4 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 .
5 Benzoic acid is often used for this purpose .
6 In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia .
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