Example sentences of "be [prep] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 2 | I must admit this town short of cafe 's for reason . |
| 3 | Art is indeed a mystery — a ‘ truth which is above reason ’ , and here are two facets of it , which , if we are honest , must have perplexed most of us . |
| 4 | If it 's within reason as I assume it will be . |
| 5 | If it 's within reason as I assume it will be . |
| 6 | It is my belief that the psychic has been labelled prematurely , without sufficient testing , and with a reliance on hopeful speculation which is beyond reason . |
| 7 | Their condition is beyond reason , but it is certainly not , as they believe , beyond cure . |
| 8 | He is beyond reason , Diniz . |
| 9 | It is his contention rather that there can be no proofs for God 's existence which are acceptable to human reason since God is beyond reason . |
| 10 | The concept of the Created God completely rules out the exclusion from the Alternative Religion of any part whatsoever of humankind , whether it be by reason of race , colour , sex , or for any other reason at all which may create an identifiable group or individual . |
| 11 | This is because s. 81(2) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 states that a dismissal is by reason of redundancy if it is ‘ wholly or mainly attributable to … the fact that his ( i.e. the employee 's ) employer … has ceased or intends to cease , to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed … ’ . |
| 12 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 13 | If the following clause is included ( which is stated in the precedent possibly to be inappropriate where the premises form part of a larger building or centre ) , the following comments will apply : [ 7.7.9 if and whenever during the Term the Premises or any part of them are damaged or destroyed by an Insured Risk and the insurance money under the policy of insurance effected by the Landlord pursuant to [ its ] obligations contained in this Lease is by reason of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] wholly or partially irrecoverable immediately in every such case ( at the option of the Landlord ) either : |
| 14 | But Richard was beyond reason . |
| 15 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 16 | This makes it the more interesting that mammoth ivory , well adapted though it was by reason of its strength for tools and weapons , was reserved to a substantial extent for personal ornaments and sculptural representations . |