Example sentences of "reason that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem to creep up on us gradually for reasons that medical science is only now beginning to understand . |
| 2 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 3 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 4 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 5 | No , I swear to God Jean he had three , he had two pints and a glass , and I had three vodkas and it , Jean , do n't be silly the only reason that wee bugger 's |
| 6 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 7 | The answer is that managerial hierarchy is and will remain the only way to structure unified working systems with hundreds , thousands or tens of thousands of employees , for the very good reason that managerial hierarchy is the expression of two fundamental characteristics of real work . |
| 8 | A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that each authority is assessed for a contribution towards the ‘ pool ’ on the basis of its school population and non-domestic rateable value and is entitled to charge to the pool its expenditure on higher education courses . |
| 10 | But the police made no attempt to contact any of them , for the obvious reason that such evidence would have been a severe embarrassment to their preconceived ideas . |
| 11 | It was for this reason that one woman diarist writing during World War II was convinced that the introduction of a national health service would mean more to women than to men . |
| 12 | At any rate , such was the reason that particular patch of ground got its name : the Snake Park . |
| 13 | The practical effect of it is to reduce the law 's interest in implying duties largely for the reason that public policy demands that an employee be free to work for whom he chooses . |
| 14 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly , part of the reason that this decision has attracted so much comment is that it was a rather " un-Gaullist " one : for once , the General took the route of facilité rather than that of inflexibilité . |
| 16 | The reason that this question is seldom , if ever , posed like this is that the answer seems to be self-evident . |
| 17 | It is for this reason that this approach proved so helpful to Brooke-Rose when she chose to turn her creative attention to narratology . |
| 18 | In a country where innovation is prized in welfare as much as in technology , there is no reason that this right will not increasingly extend to other groups — Specialised Housing 's initiative has already caused the families of people with a severely mentally ill child to start thinking whether such an option might be open to them — but the fact remains that in the USA parents have even fewer options than in this country . |
| 19 | This pillar , which constituted a defence of the common law tradition , seems to be firmly rooted in the ancient conception , for the rather simple reason that this conception of the rule of law is clearly reflected in the common law tradition itself . |
| 20 | We 've already designated Spectra or Dyneema line for your stunter and for the good reason that this material is not only lightest for its strength , but that it also has the property of sliding on itself even with as many as fifteen twists between flyer and kite . |
| 21 | It is for this reason that this group should be included in any study of the flexible workforce . |
| 22 | There is no reason that any child of God should be a victim of their past . |
| 23 | But of course no one has really been suggesting that history has no meaning , for the obvious reason that any interpretation of history as such must ipso facto assert meaning . |
| 24 | A collective bargain is based on the concept of power which is the reason that any trade union aspires to closed shop status . |
| 25 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |