Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 2 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 3 | Even if they return to work for the same firm when their children go to school their seniority is lost . |
| 4 | She braved herself to meet his eyes , wondering if he too had lost his appetite and for the same reason as her . |
| 5 | Since both need/dare and the infinitive evoke potentialities , no before/after relation is felt to pertain between them and so to is not necessary for the same reason as it is not used with the modal auxiliaries . |
| 6 | The insects are out and about for the same reason as us , moving at night to beat the midday heat at the very centre of the Grand Canyon . |
| 7 | Your colleagues are there for the same reason as you , no matter what they might say or do . |
| 8 | I took courage , stopped , looked my questioner straight in the eye and said , ‘ I come from Fontanellato by tram and I am here for the same reason as you are . |
| 9 | ‘ For the same reason as I say a carpenter , I dare say ! ’ shrugged Joan . |
| 10 | Harrington did well temporarily for the same reason as my original Cheat did . |
| 11 | ‘ Heading for the same place as yours when you see who he 's with . |
| 12 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 13 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |
| 14 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 15 | Er I mean it brings it about the same price as we 're paying anyway does n't it ? |
| 16 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 17 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 18 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 20 | It 's a little thing , like a boy , about the same size as you in fact . ’ |
| 21 | Does it look about the same size as my other ? |
| 22 | About the same size as our familiar British redshank , in breeding plumage it is almost black all over with some paler spotting on the back . |
| 23 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 24 | And erm , so I said alright then give me some suggestions , because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue , Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen , about the same size as mine |
| 25 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 26 | He was a big man with a fine moustache about the same age as her father had been , Emily guessed , but it was quite apparent that he considered himself quite a dandy . |
| 27 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 28 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 29 | Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class , where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her . |
| 30 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |