Example sentences of "[adj] reason [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we pause briefly and attempt to list the possible reasons why an individual or a family might have needed parish relief in the late 18th and early 19th centuries — sickness , unemployment , the needs of one-parent families or of orphans or young children , support in times of local or national economic crisis , old age — then we have now found Titfords in every category . |
| 2 | Although , from a tax point of view , an assets purchase is relatively straightforward , there are many commercial reasons why an acquisition of Target may be preferred by both vendor and Newco , even though Target may have unquantified liabilities . |
| 3 | It is submitted that there is no good reason why an obligation of confidence should not arise if the supplier of the information clearly expresses it to be confidential . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , they are less sanguine , covering the chronic weakness of their arguments in the figleaf of officialese : ‘ There are fundamental reasons why an aggregate estimate of the impact of economic and monetary union is not feasible . |
| 5 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 6 | Without the gene's-eye view of life there is no particular reason why an organism should ‘ care ’ about its reproductive success and that of its relatives , rather than , for instance , its own longevity . |
| 7 | Over and above general considerations about the desirability of taking history seriously , there is a particular reason why an historical , or at least a diachronic , perspective is appropriate in the present case . |