Example sentences of "this [is] [art] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Survey of Significant Accounting Policies on Football Clubs , Touche Ross says that this is a reason why many clubs show big losses or severely depressed profit levels . |
| 2 | You 'd be right , of course : Citroens which have lost the use of their hydropneumatic systems are sorry beasts , best taken to one side and shot in the neck ; and I 'll admit I was once charged £300 for a new water pump for a CX model , but this is no reason to dismiss them . |
| 3 | Having achieved orgasm , many men find later in life that the interval before the next erection increases to hours , or even days ; but this is no reason for abandoning sexual activity . |
| 4 | Needless to say , this is no reason why feminists should cease their demands ( quite the reverse ) , but it is a reason why the demand for abolition will never be met in isolation ; and even if it were it would be pointless overall , since further anomalies would be created and the burden of injustice simply shifted to other women . |
| 5 | This is no reason to rubbish what is achievable by these different means . |
| 6 | Yet this is no reason for ignoring what , taken as a whole process , is so general a social fact . |
| 7 | However , this is no reason for despair since it is by examining and measuring the relationship between indicators that researchers can begin to get a better idea of what are good and what are poor indicators . |
| 8 | This effect will probably be temporary , says scientists , but this is no reason for complacency about ozone-depleting chemicals . |
| 9 | Nor is there much in the fairness argument , although this is the reason offered by 46 per cent of the people interested in PR . |
| 10 | This is the reason for the committed marketing budget . |
| 11 | Obviously this is the reason why the people concerned were all so visible to each other . |
| 12 | This is the reason why I said to the managers of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955 , I will have the orchestra for my lifetime , otherwise I will not sign the contract . |
| 13 | Of course , I told you I had too much on my plate to be able to continue our correspondence , and I hope this is the reason you stopped writing . |
| 14 | This is the reason for which the legislation is adopted and it is , for the legislator , a dependent reason . |
| 15 | This is the reason why there is reliance when it occurs . |
| 16 | This is the reason Indians have begun to say that the sky and elements felt the death of the Inca that the Spaniards , inhuman and impious , were killing with such cruelty . ’ |
| 17 | This is the reason why he chose to do dentistry rather than Art Restoration , despite the fact that , ‘ I lurv Russian icons . ’ |
| 18 | This is lower than the steady 3 points per move that both players can amass in a run of mutual cooperation ( and , by the way , this is the reason for the ‘ additional condition ’ left unexplained on page 204 ) . |
| 19 | This is the reason for the high incidence of pre-menstrual tension among women who find it particularly difficult to relax or unwind . |
| 20 | This is the reason why our opportunity is so much greater than his and why our potential for joy is limitless . |
| 21 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 23 | This is the reason I am a sans-papiers . |
| 24 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 25 | This is the reason for the invention of the electron microscope which uses electrons with a wave-length of something like a twenty-fifth of an Ångström instead of light with a wave-length of about four thousand Ångströms . |
| 26 | This is the reason for the internal head-band in helmets which looks as if it was put in in order to provide ventilation . |
| 27 | Floor boards and furniture tend to follow the humidity and this is the reason for the ghostly noises one hears in the house at night . |
| 28 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 29 | This is the reason that most drugs movies — especially those like Postcards From The Edge and Wired , which are set in Hollywood — denounce their source material so hysterically . |
| 30 | It is a prevalent source of distress to teachers that they are unable to ‘ be themselves ’ in school , and this is the reason that they often give for leaving , or wanting to leave , the profession . |