Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Much of the variation in the items is indeed directly related to their use , but the variability in the design of objects destined for the same function may point to socio-cultural differences .
2 The price of goods varies for the same item , in fact Birkbeck noted as many as ten different prices for the same type of waste paper .
3 A large number of periodicals survived for a few issues and then disappeared : ten ceased or suspended publication during 1971 .
4 Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage .
5 The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) .
6 The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase .
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