Example sentences of "the reason [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 3 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 4 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 5 | The reason we receive massive newspaper publicity for reports like Empty Quarters and Nobody 's Home is that every property is illustrated . |
| 6 | You are , after all , 100% of the reason we are in business . |
| 7 | The reason we do so is entirely based on our perception of what older people should and should not be allowed to do for themselves — at their age . |
| 8 | ‘ The reason we have had so many problems of late is that the fizz has gone out of the market , ’ Abrahams says . |
| 9 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 10 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason we did a video for ‘ Dipping ’ was because it conjured up a lot of images . |
| 12 | Various scientists have therefore proposed that the reason we can not find the hypothetical tenth planet is that there is no such planet at all rather there is , much further out , a black hole . |
| 13 | The reason we do not use Column one , Row one is that this often prints as an incomplete box on some printers , so it is best avoided . |
| 14 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 15 | Mr Birdsall added : ‘ The reason we changed the meals around was to avoid the cost of bringing in outside caterers . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 17 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 18 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 19 | The reason we leased the Buckfastleigh Branch to the S.R.D.T. was made clear in the press release at the time , of which we enclose a copy . |
| 20 | ‘ The reason we do this , why we play music is because … we like doing it . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
| 22 | ‘ This year we have already been told the reason we have had three surges higher than anticipated was because of the bath-tub effect from closing the Thames barrier , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ The reason we have so many members of other faiths , ’ Olivia says , ‘ is that people feel the feminine element has been pushed out from their religions . |
| 24 | Whatever the reason we have to look elsewhere for evidence of the origins of the invertebrates . |
| 25 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 26 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 27 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 28 | Now , the reason we we focus on the capsule as illustrated on the right here is that hymophylus have many different capsular types , but but only one type appears to be associated with meningitis . |
| 29 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 30 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |