Example sentences of "[prep] the same reason " in BNC.

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1 For the same reason , fruit that ripens in a dry sunny autumn will often keep longest , whereas a wet season may shorten their storage life .
2 Doors are outlined in a black architrave for the same reason .
3 More than twenty years later , at the end of World War Two , Pound , in a prison-stockade awaiting trial for treason , was still celebrating Anchises in the same strain , and for the same reason :
4 Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did .
5 Notoriously strong , due to enforced national service , and generously funded for the same reason , French Army sides of the past have launched international careers like that of Eric Vergniol , who this year switched to rugby union .
6 Less happily , but for the same reason , repossessed houses are often auctioned .
7 Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason .
8 Sub-Saharan Africa continued its decline in per capita income , too , for the same reason as the heavily indebted countries — population increases continued to outstrip modest rates of economic growth .
9 Marine Midland , a subsidiary of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank , lost $300m last year for the same reason .
10 Unfortunately , the partner does not make use of this opportunity , because he , too ( and for the same reason ) , pretends to be asleep and fears to budge .
11 Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't .
12 Also cut attractive seed-heads such as poppies for the same reason .
13 Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English .
14 For the same reason , I fear that an accountant 's expert knowledge of tax havens may once again be a saleable commodity .
15 for the same reason , it might be useful to provide a fuller account of rural development policy than is at present available in the WIIC 's planning documents or the various reports of the HIDB .
16 A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too .
17 The LEA 's decision to allow the child 's admission to the school was challenged by the Commission for Racial Equality , which asked the Secretary of State to use his default powers in the 1944 Act and quash the LEA 's decision , on the ground that the decision was racist and would encourage other parents to pursue the same course as Mrs C and for the same reason .
18 For the same reason , handicapped children should be increasingly integrated into normal schools , although special schools will still be required for special learning difficulties .
19 ‘ No , for the same reason . ’
20 For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized .
21 Killing Fairbrother was out , too , for the same reason .
22 Surface wiping above shoulder height should be avoided for the same reason .
23 Harrington did well temporarily for the same reason as my original Cheat did .
24 Beavers use flotation for the same reason as Canadian lumber companies use rivers and eighteenth-century coal merchants used canals .
25 His hemiplegic hip may be supported on a folded towel for the same reason , and he needs sheepskin muffs to protect his heels from pressure sores .
26 For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort .
27 Another of her private heroes was Isambard Kingdom Brunel , for the same reason .
28 But why do n't the rules stipulate that on a grey you have to wear brown breeches for the same reason ?
29 For the same reason the doctor , medical attendant , or other who turned off a ventilator in this situation would be guilty of murder .
30 For the same reason an ambitious nuclear power programme has been considerably slowed .
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