Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] for [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two basic strategies are employed for this purpose . |
| 2 | Write in Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) , and show an increasing differentiation between speech and writing , eg by using constructions which reduce repetition . |
| 3 | Make some use of literary stylistic features , such as alteration of word order for emphasis or the deliberate repetition of words or sentence patterns , and of those features that characterise an impersonal style when required , using Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) . |
| 4 | Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) . |
| 5 | Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) . |
| 6 | Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) . |
| 7 | Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) . |
| 8 | I rewrote the sentence as follows : ‘ Use Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , e.g. in dialogue , in a story or a play-script . ) ’ |
| 9 | Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent . |
| 10 | Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | The key point is that if the knives are used for one purpose and do not fall into the category of domestic cutlery there is a case for a ban . |
| 12 | As public education developed in the middle of the nineteenth century , and as public funds were allocated for this purpose , it was considered that central government should oversee what was taught in schools . |
| 13 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 14 | These observations are valuable irrespective of Planet X , because planetary ephemerides are needed for other purposes such as spacecraft navigation and pulsar data reduction , and are instrumental in precise tests of theories of gravitation . |
| 15 | He said there were ‘ good grounds for suspicion that certain offshore banks are used for fraudulent purposes ’ . |
| 16 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 17 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 18 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 19 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 20 | Because different lenses are used for different purposes ( for example , a wide-angle lens gets more visual information on-screen than a close-up lens ) , even in straightforward recording , it could be argued that any photographic image is already a distortion of what one sees in the real world . |
| 21 | Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection . |
| 22 | And what about those dogs and monkeys being used for experimental purposes ? |
| 23 | Reacting to Ms Ashworth 's claim , BT said it would be appalled if those machines were used for that purpose . |
| 24 | Two arguments are used for this purpose . |
| 25 | Keeping the building 's historic aspect was not always achieved and as most of the barns were converted for residential purposes it was necessary to pay careful attention to planning and design to retain the original character , and this was not always done . |
| 26 | In the early 1820s the comparative material gathered from the United States by Liverpool abolitionists was used for parliamentary purposes . |
| 27 | English is one of the languages that do not use tone in this way though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes ; such languages are sometimes called intonation languages . |
| 28 | No payments were made for political purposes . |
| 29 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 30 | 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 . |