Example sentences of "[noun] for the [det] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 ( Hawks wear bells for the same reason as mountain cattle — so you can hear them when you ca n't see them . )
2 He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) .
3 He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) .
4 Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland .
5 Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular .
6 Even if they return to work for the same firm when their children go to school their seniority is lost .
7 Several companies , such as Citroen , have started to offer diesel models for the same price as petrol-powered ones .
8 I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst .
9 Beavers use flotation for the same reason as Canadian lumber companies use rivers and eighteenth-century coal merchants used canals .
10 Another country which has weapons for the same reason as Iraq is the Arab state of Libya .
11 Stimuli were presented either to the right or left of a fixation point which had a digit presentation for the same duration as the sign or word stimuli .
12 We placed bets on three horses , then decided to allow the gyp or college servant who placed the bets for us to make his own choice for the same amount as each of our three bets .
13 Galerie Didier Imbert , just off the Rond-Point on avenue Matignon , is putting on an exhibition of fifty Botero pastels , watercolours and drawings and twenty sculptures for the same duration as the open air show down the road .
14 Policyholders were able to benefit from higher levels of retirement benefits for the same premium because the death provision was limited .
15 His aim was to show that you can cook wholesome , gourmet dishes for the same price as ordinary school dinners — 46p a head — and that children really love them .
16 Some experts claim the difference may be as much as 15 per cent , but producers in Austria--which leads the rest of Europe in RME use--claim they can make RME for the same price as diesel .
17 However , there were no dramatic confessions of faulty flight practices for the same reason as in the USA , namely that the CAA was the organisation to whom incident reports were ( and are ) to be addressed and also the authority responsible for enforcement of aviation legislation , i.e. the prosecutor of wrong-doers .
18 A lending bank will try to fund such a loan by means of a fixed interest rate deposit(s) for the same term as the loan .
19 Figure 6.8 shows the PERT network for the same project as Figures 6.5 and 6.6 .
20 Figure 6.8 shows the PERT network for the same project as Figures 6.5 and 6.6 .
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