Sentence examples for former purposes from inspiring English sources

For "Paraparquetry," the floor in a small gallery has been tiled with wooden blocks, in varying heights, cut (in a manner recalling the Gordon Matta-Clark show uptown) from disassembled furniture; stray drawer pulls and hinges reveal the blocks' former purposes.

Crosses on the sandstone carvings around the house's eaves recall its former purpose.

The former purpose has been carried out to a considerable, though not complete, extent by the sixteen decrees, whose implementation represents the work that has only started.

The sight is so alarming that it sets her "blood and organs into crashing disarray until I was soon drained of all former purpose, as slender as that was".

While the former purpose cares for the alternative production cycles caused by the alternative cargo mixes ready to be transported within a short-term planning period, the added purpose cares for the alternative production cycles caused by the alternative trade areas ready to be serviced within a long-term planning period.

More and more, the reporters--whose former purpose was to serve as a vessel in which to deliver news--are becoming the focus of their own type of celebrity.

For the former purpose, 23 PTCLs/NOS were chosen, all provided with GEP data and characterized by at least 80% of neoplastic cells as defined based on their aberrant phenotypic profile.

It was obvious from the overall results that standard contrast-enhanced CT is better suited to diagnosing patients with lung cancer than ruling out cancer; all other things being equal, the specificity for the former purpose was 20 percentage points higher than for the latter.

One commentator observes that POJ "today is largely disassociated from its former religious purposes".

That's something, I guess, but who's going to suddenly decide to browse men's shoes at Timberland instead of responding to a message, which they opened the app to do? Messenger isn't really a "free time" experience the way Facebook proper is — you use the former with purpose, the latter idly.

Making use of land that has potential for housebuilding or a return to its former industrial purpose should be a priority for any government.