Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 2 | Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace . |
| 3 | That figure may slightly nonplus a reader nurtured in these Caledonian climes ; and his bewilderment will not be lessened when he discovers that £600 was the annual rent charged for the same accommodation in 1912 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Black prisoners had fewer previous convictions than white prisoners sentenced for the same type of offence and were less likely to be granted bail . |
| 6 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 7 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 8 | It was , however , clearly laid down that the architects would have no claim whatever , except for the prize money offered for the several designs that might be approved . |
| 9 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 10 | a study of the reservations chart for the same period last year ; |
| 11 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 12 | One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job . |
| 13 | Alliance councillor Larry Thompson warned that if such a motion was passed and implemented it would act as a catalyst encouraging other groups and organisations to apply for the same free waste collection . |
| 14 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 15 | We 'd get £50 or £60 a night — which might not sound like a lot but that 's still what young bands get for the same gigs today . |
| 16 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 17 | The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job . |
| 18 | But that does not breed the slightest hint of complacency as the 31-year-old Ballinascreen clubman prepares for the All Ireland final . |
| 19 | They stopped and another friend bound for the same place , who had seen the problem , pulled up and walked over to them . |
| 20 | The first is that the donations that would be made would go to charitable social service agencies providing for the same groups as statutory agencies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 23 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 24 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 25 | it is useless having the grand manner reserved for the few . |
| 26 | ANDES reports for the same month that , since 1979 , 309 teachers have been murdered , 33 were political prisoners , 24 had disappeared , 4,500 were displaced and some 4,000 in exile . |
| 27 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 28 | The Bishop who was now an ageing man resided for the most of his time at Halling , and Trottescliffe . |
| 29 | It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement . |
| 30 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |