Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for [adj] purposes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Theogonist 's leadership value is not therefore used , but has been included for comparative purposes . |
| 2 | Specialized apparatus , which formerly had been made for specific purposes in the laboratory where it was required , could be obtained from manufacturers of scientific instruments , saving much time and labour . |
| 3 | In most cases a single example of the relationships between the object and a given contextual domain has been selected for illustrative purposes , although it will be obvious that there is a vast number of alternative relevant instances . |
| 4 | that save where persons under 16 have been exploited for sexual purposes or persons of any age have been made to suffer actual physical harm , sexual depictions should no longer be subject to the criminal law ; and |
| 5 | In the UK since October 1982 , the number of people unemployed has been measured for official purposes as the number of ‘ people claiming benefit ( that is , unemployment benefit , supplementary benefits or national insurance credits ) at Unemployment Benefit Offices on the day of the monthly count , who on that day were unemployed and able and willing to do any suitable work ’ . |
| 6 | Since 1971 , 1280 kg of plutonium produced in the UK has been exported for civil purposes principally to Belgium , France , the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland , Japan and the United States . |
| 7 | Plutonium still in AGR and Magnox reactor fuel was estimated to total 8–5 tonnes ; discharged but not yet reprocessed plutonium amounted to 3–5 tonnes ; while plutonium awaiting processing , but in an intermediate form , came to just half a tonne , the same amount as had been exported for civil purposes . |
| 8 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 9 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 10 | Although this procedure had been used for administrative purposes in Normandy ( where the English example of Domesday Book was an inspiration ) and in Anjou before Geoffrey le Bel 's conquest of Normandy , the Feoda marked an important step in its use in eastern France . |
| 11 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 12 | It was especially notable in the case of Holland where early employer alliances had been forged for pressure-group purposes with a view to opposing the introduction of new social policies and labour legislation . |
| 13 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 14 | Various forms of biological material have been sampled for geochemical purposes ( Al Ajely and others , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 16 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 17 | A new technique had been invented for new purposes . ’ |
| 18 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 19 | Thus , there are parish boundaries defining land attached to a particular church ; more recently , civil parishes , which in many cases only vaguely now relate to religious parishes , have been defined for administrative purposes . |
| 20 | If the exchange suspects that a trade has been effected for improper purposes it must investigate this . |
| 21 | 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 . |