Example sentences of "for the [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over-borrowing should have been shunned , for the elementary reason that a decline in over-geared profitability can destroy the net worth of shareholders . |
| 2 | It 's a privilege ; I 'd say more , but I would only be cut for the usual reason , lack of |
| 3 | ‘ All for the usual reason — he needed the money . ’ |
| 4 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 5 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 6 | Doing the right thing for the wrong reason v. doing the wrong thing for the right reason . |
| 7 | They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies . |
| 8 | Perhaps then a change in emphasis away from technological advancement for the sole reason of energy saving and control , to technological advancement for occupant satisfaction and concomitant increased productivity is what is required . |
| 9 | Ox-bridge colleges only display ‘ closed to visitors ’ signs during exam time , for the sole reason of allowing students peace and quiet in which to study without coachloads of tourists trudging past the window . |
| 10 | He buys a hugely expensive house for the sole reason that it has a view over the bay of a winking green light from Daisy 's house . |
| 11 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 12 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 13 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 14 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 15 | For the only reason Cara would make that contact was , she knew , if Barney was worse . |
| 16 | Oppenheimer 's ‘ defects of character ’ , the political indiscretions and Communist Front connections of his past , were seen to be an excuse for the real reason for his suspension : that the father of the A-bomb was ‘ lacking enthusiasm ’ and ‘ lukewarm ’ about the H-bomb . |
| 17 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 18 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 19 | This was not confirmed by Port Stanley for the good reason that we were no longer in contact with Port Stanley . |
| 20 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 21 | The minute stopped the Cabinet committee dead in its tracks — for the good reason that I was not prepared to go on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Gregory 's Pastoral Care said nothing about this aspect of a bishop 's work for the good reason that jurisdictions such as that claimed by Canterbury did not exist in his day . |
| 24 | These are caves you should see , for the good reason that they were lived in . |
| 25 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
| 26 | We shall never know , for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice , of every point of origin . |
| 27 | He had reluctantly decided against John Jasper , for the good reason that there being nothing distinctive about his dress , no one would realise who he was . |
| 28 | Unlike most stockbroking firms Vine-Lott can not tell you how many clients he has , for the good reason that much of his business comes from the Barclays branch network , with the individual branch counted as the client rather than the individuals who buy and sell shares in the particular branch . |
| 29 | In London the supermarkets already dominate the milk supply business , for the good reason that they are open late at night which is when the singles do their shopping and can sell it much more cheaply , 35p against 40p . |
| 30 | Brown can not be deputy leader for the straightforward reason that an all-Scottish ticket would put off the English . |