Example sentences of "[verb] for [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing . |
| 2 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 3 | It is the type that sea fishermen use for exactly the same reason . |
| 4 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 5 | In fact , these powers were not so extraordinary by local standards ; Russia 's reformers have asked for much the same . |
| 6 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 7 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 8 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |