Example sentences of "reason for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , cynics in Sacramento can find a political reason for every one of Mr Brown 's good works . |
| 2 | I am sure you 'll see de reason for de rhyme , |
| 3 | Failure to do this is the only reason for a reversal of the spin from one direction to another . |
| 4 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 5 | ‘ The main reason for a lot is that they are in trouble because of higher mortgage rates . ’ |
| 6 | Probably the most common reason for a company to ‘ go international ’ is insufficient growth in the domestic market . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the occasional inept vinyl-to-CD transfer or wilfully bizarre remix , digital sound and I co-exist quite happily ; my main reason for a return to the vinyl frontier is a hankering to hear certain pieces of music from my retired record collection . |
| 8 | In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause . |
| 9 | Social Worker : That sounds a good reason for a 9-year-old not to tell her mother . |
| 10 | And there had to be a reason for a coup . |
| 11 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 12 | Consequently , they might remove the base , thereby removing the reason for a nuclear attack . |
| 13 | A major reason for a manager to understand something about statistics ( and to overcome his fear of numbers ) is to enable him to cope with other managers who use this method of proving a point or presenting a case . |
| 14 | Such a policy had ( and has ) its risks ; the forbidden becomes tempting — especially if there seems no good reason for a restriction . |
| 15 | Mayor Houde made his business headquarters at the Mount Royal , and when I enquired the reason for a long queue of nondescript citizens waiting before a desk on the mezzanine floor , I was told that it was ‘ pay-off ’ day for contributors to the mayor 's ‘ charity fund ’ for their ‘ protection ’ . |
| 16 | Accident injuries are also a major cause of morbidity in childhood , and the reason for a substantial proportion of hospital admissions among children in the 1–14 age groups ( Constantinides , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | International trade and capital flows provide the reason for a foreign exchange market(s) because , despite increased economic interdependence in the world , each country maintains its own national medium of exchange . |
| 18 | It is stressed that ‘ DHAs will need to develop sensitive procedures … but will have the right to refuse … if there is no satisfactory reason for a distant or expensive referral ’ ( DoH , 1989 e ) . |
| 19 | These two men , with veteran George Walker between them , became one of Palace 's most famous middle lines and a potent reason for a serious challenge for the 1938–39 3rd Division South championship . |
| 20 | Failure on the part of a candidate to return work as required will be a sufficient reason for a board of examiners not to take the work into account in determining the results of a candidate . |
| 21 | I suspect that the reason for a terminus in that town has more to do with the presence of several bonded warehouses than with objective computer modelling . |
| 22 | There was no reason for a beleaguered host to be gentle when hauling two spies into their precincts , and in their anger and disappointment and fear , the men who handled the drag-ropes would have made sure , but for Lomellini , that these climbers never climbed again . |
| 23 | The probable reason for a wild cat entering a house is to look for food ; but this was the lambing season with plentiful big-cat food in all directions . |
| 24 | The reason for a new secrecy law is that , post-Maastricht , the EC is getting more and more involved in contentious areas like defence , foreign affairs , and asylum policies — part of the famous ‘ ever closer union between the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 25 | But the main reason for a 37% profits rise to £2.32m was a Pounds 440,000 turnround in interest payments to £105,000 interest receivable , thanks to cash from last year 's £3m rights issue . |
| 26 | The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow . |
| 27 | Another reason for a fresh visit to Dering Street is provided by enterprising young private dealer , Thomas Dane , who has joined forces with Scott Crolla 's father , Romano , the proprietor of the street 's cafeteria . |
| 28 | The demands of science , however conceived , can never be the ultimate reason for a system-centred or state-centred approach to international relations . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it is important that staff actually listen to the language used by clients ; the reason for a distressed patient telephoning the counselling office was a member of the medical staff saying to her : ‘ Mrs Jones , we are abandoning you this month . ’ |
| 30 | TGAT 's second reason for a marking scale — ‘ establishing where the child stands in relation to others ’ — is at the root of the matter . |