Example sentences of "[num] reasons for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.7.2 Reasons for low productivity |
| 2 | 3.7.2 Reasons for low productivity |
| 3 | There are three reasons for this . |
| 4 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 5 | There are three reasons for this : first , because it is a fine and original piece of cinema ; second — and most remarkably — because it is a heart-felt acid attack on Hollywood ; and third , because it marks the return to form of one of cinema 's greatest living directors . |
| 6 | There are three reasons for this . |
| 7 | There are three reasons for this . |
| 8 | There are basically three reasons for this prediction . |
| 9 | There are three reasons for this . |
| 10 | There were three reasons for this state of affairs . |
| 11 | There were three reasons for this : |
| 12 | I think erm there were essentially three reasons for this . |
| 13 | There are two reasons for that . |
| 14 | And I think there are two reasons for that . |
| 15 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 16 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 17 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 18 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 19 | There are two reasons for this : first , there is no way to place a value on any one quality , and second , a quality considered to be a weakness is frequently only a counterbalance to assure that a strength is not misused . |
| 20 | There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals . |
| 21 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 22 | If you tend to forget back-up reasons in the surprise of hearing yourself make a proposal or suggestion , then use a link to remind yourself : ‘ And there are two reasons for this . ’ |
| 23 | There are two reasons for this . |
| 24 | There are two reasons for this : it would take far too long for the calves to reach working age , and their mothers would be off work while rearing very young calves . |
| 25 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 26 | There are two reasons for this : first , the collection of international modern art and the British historical collections are out of proportion with one another , and if they were separated , that problem would disappear . |
| 27 | There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated . |
| 28 | There are two reasons for this : ( i ) the analyses for the technical feasibility of graduated test levels in Chapter 6 ( pp. 153–87 ) are based on these success rates ; ( ii ) for economy of presentation as difficulty factors can easily be identified using these figures . |
| 29 | There are at least two reasons for this . |
| 30 | In purely linguistic terms , there are two reasons for this difference between Belfast and certain other studies . |