Example sentences of "reason is that [art] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 The reason is that the bond is trading below par and the redemption schedule has the effect of shortening the period over which the capital gain arises , thereby enhancing yield .
2 A second reason is that the D-mark is already overvalued , not undervalued , against most other member currencies in terms of its purchasing-power parity .
3 For Swift , the reason is that the marriage is based on an idealization of the woman .
4 From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army .
5 Where a claim is presented late and the reason is that the date is overlooked by the adviser , this may not be fatal to the claim in the Industrial Tribunal .
6 The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised .
7 The reason is that the program was written in BASIC , a sort of computer baby-talk .
8 A more sinister reason is that the horse is in fact running away from pain .
9 ‘ There 's no room for growth in the traditional sectors and the main reason is that the demography is against us .
10 One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other .
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