The phrase "has some purpose" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something has a specific reason or intention behind it. Example: "The new regulations have been put in place because they have some purpose in improving workplace safety."
Unless of course you believe that nature itself has some purpose.
In an FT column, Kellaway said that we need to go to the office to convince ourselves that our work has some purpose.
Doctors should make sure the statement has some purpose in the conversation and that it is either helpful to the patient or is about empathy.
We need to go to the office for five more reasons: to convince ourselves that what we do has some purpose, to make us feel human, to help us learn, to give us a feeling of work as distinct from home – and to facilitate the flow of gossip," Kellaway said.
"Any phenomena that is as persistent and pervasive as bullshit must have some purpose," he says.
Who knows, it's just possible that downtrodden MPs may come to realise they still have some purpose and will one day start a rebellion.
Mr. Malley said their momentum stemmed from a sense of mission: "They do seem to have some purpose around which they are rallying".
And that may have been the series's single stubbornest problem: how to keep Bond sexy while acknowledging that women — even quite skimpily dressed ones — might have some purpose in Creation's plan other than to supply bed partners for an unusually good-looking British civil servant.
If it is obvious to the state the person detained is not a terrorist, the state must have some purpose other than determining whether he is a terrorist in using the power – and that would render the use of the power unlawful.
