Example sentences of "reason that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this reason that many countries , including the UK , have adopted more flexible exchange rates . |
| 2 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that many experts prefer the expression " Islamic textile art " when describing oriental rugs , despite the fact that many of the items covered by this description will certainly have been woven by non Muslims and possess no trace of Islamic symbolism in their compositions . |
| 4 | It is as if riches are an intolerable burden to the truly free spirit , and it is for this reason that many men have voluntarily thrown away then money . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that ordinary policemen and women dislike it when the typifications become confused , when decent and honest ‘ victims ’ of crime , for example , become ‘ trouble-makers ’ by taking the law into their own hands . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that various commentators from different countries have argued that the path towards a more egalitarian distribution of income lies ‘ outside rather than inside schools , in social and economic change , rather than in educational change ’ . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that totalitarian governments , and even quasi-totalitarian governments , employ censorship . |
| 8 | When reforms were proposed in Star Chamber Francis Bacon said that he considered it to be ‘ standing with all equity and reason that new orders or favours should not frustrate ancient fees ’ . |
| 9 | The majority report concluded that there should be equal representation of owners and trade unions ; and then proceeds straight to the view that a third group of co-opted directors should be appointed , adding as their first reason that those directors would bring special experience to the board room , and a broader and more detached view of the company 's affairs . |
| 10 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is for this reason that most colleges run their Dip.HE programmes as part of degree-linked courses . |
| 14 | Usually an owner responds by placing the building on the market for the simple reason that most owners would rather sell to anyone than the local authority . |
| 15 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 16 | Overriding all these considerations , however , is her forthright view that these linguistic schemes were ultimately nonsense , for the excellent reason that artificial languages are not compatible with the ways in which man and languages actually operate . |
| 17 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 18 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that these sorts of incident are particularly disliked by policemen and are marginalized to policewomen , wherever staffing levels allow . |
| 20 | Drug laws are shaped by vested economic interest , and the real reason that some drugs remain illegal is to allow the law to intervene in the lives of those the state perceives as threatening . |
| 21 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 22 | The reason that conventional trackballs and joysticks are n't used is because the precise positioning that they provide simply is n't needed . |
| 23 | Again perfectly good adaptive reasons — they have two pairs of fins for the same reason that sensible aeroplanes , i.e. the aeroplanes that I used to design before people went crazy , have a wing in the front and a tailplane behind , and basically they do so because two surfaces — one in front of the other like that — is the minimum number of surfaces needed if you want to produce a vertical force through any point along your body . |