Example sentences of "[prep] the same [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , a few years later another similar boat , a Fairy Swordfish , was purchased for the same purpose which in my opinion was a much inferior seaboat . |
| 2 | For the same reasons we must regret that Posidonius did not try out on Rome that ethnographical style which makes his Celts live for ever — a model to the French nation for any past and future extravagance . |
| 3 | For the same reasons one can not properly express one 's willingness to share the fortunes of a group by submitting to an authority which grossly betrays the trust it owes to the group . |
| 4 | And then you can also for the same money which by the way I think is er No I 'll let me come to that later . |
| 5 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 6 | The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the same reason they understand why Gandalf tells Frodo not to use the Ring ( use always causes addiction ) ; why Sam , Bilbo and Frodo nevertheless survive their use of it ( addiction in early stages is curable ) ; why Boromir succumbs to the Ring without handling it ( use has to be preceded by desire ) ; and why Faramir can shrug it off ( a wise person is capable of stifling the desire to become addicted , though no wisdom will stifle addiction once contracted ) . |
| 9 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 10 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 11 | For the same reason we feel that it is important to determine ICAM-1 expression in tissues and serum samples of patients with colonic cancer , because ICAM-1 expression on melanoma was shown to be an important pathophysiological parameter . |
| 12 | For the same reason it has been successfully refined and modified to accept communism . |
| 13 | For the same reason it is also an effective device for constructing a ‘ common enemy ’ or ‘ system ’ for people to unite against . |
| 14 | For the same reason you should place any edge stitches that are selected back to B position — the selector level will select the pattern of needles in working position , regardless of where they fall on the needlebed . |
| 15 | For the same reason you should not make any comment other than innocuous ones until the microphone has been removed . |
| 16 | ‘ For the same reason you called tonight . |
| 17 | For the same reason you came to your grandfather 's defence , I could never have taken the jade ! ’ she insisted passionately . |
| 18 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 19 | For the same reason I dictate my memoirs in the centre of a maze . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 21 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 22 | For the same reason she has , with regret , resigned from the committee . |
| 23 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 24 | There is now the danger that the same media circus will be dispatched to Sardinia next summer looking for the same headlines which will produce a similar outcome . |
| 25 | By the time there are 95 different budget projections on disk for the same period it may be difficult to remember who contributed what . |
| 26 | For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour . |
| 27 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 28 | During the same period there has been a significant overall fall in employment and rise in unemployment , among 16–18-year-olds . |
| 29 | Although Nizan 's writings of the period are suffused with acerbic communist ideology , although he was chosen as communist party candidate in Bourg-en-Bresse for the general election of 1932 , although he participated fully in the Universite Ouvriere from its opening in 1932 , during the same period he was also involved in finalising his bourgeois education ( 1927–9 ) , he was also a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1931–2 ) . |
| 30 | During the same period he clearly became involved in royal service , for in 1250 he acted for Henry III at the papal curia in securing the confirmation of the highly controversial election to the bishopric of Winchester of Aymer de Valence [ q.v. ] , the king 's half-brother , and then , in the next year , he was appointed the king 's proctor at the papal curia . |