Example sentences of "[art] reason for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( This is the reason for defining the bigram matrix as a 1-dimensional array .
2 The reason for discussing the availability of judicial review before discussing the grounds on which decision may be reviewed is because the law of judicial review is more ‘ remedies-oriented ’ than private law .
3 The reason for selecting the figure US$2m. was that by the end of January 1992 the sum in court together with accrued interest had grown to U.S.$2½m. and U.S.$½m. would be fully sufficient to satisfy any claims of the shipowners , charterers and other commercial parties .
4 It was further said that the reason for limiting the application of subsection ( 2 ) to those third parties who are knowingly concerned in the contravention is that an order addressed directly to a third party ( as opposed to the contravener acting by his servants or agents ) would only be necessary where the third party had an interest of his own in the subject-matter of the order .
5 The reason for entitling the chapter 's second main section ‘ Factors inhibiting professional development ’ is that , despite a number of favourable features being observed during the writer 's research , not least the support given to arts education activities by local authority non-arts administrators , it is the difficulty which arts educators face in mounting a coherent and sustained programme of staff development which is the predominant theme .
6 The reason for covering the head is not often understood in Britain .
7 Sorry , one thing I did n't explain , I it 's , it 's probably quite obvious , but I 'll explain it anyway , which is the reason for putting the planning calendars in at that place is your diary expires in the December of next , of this year , you will probably order your refill in October , November er , of next year , and , and based on our outstanding customer services this year , you 'll probably receive it next February .
8 The reason for putting the onus of proof on the firms is that they have both the incentive to make the case , and access to the detailed information on which the case is to be based .
9 The reason for reducing the event 's costs is that the less money which is spent on the gig means that more money goes to the artist .
10 In the creation of some , and the perpetuation of most , of these mevleviyets where the reason for raising the status of the kadilik is not immediately apparent one can perhaps see the operation of a factor which greatly influenced the elaboration of the learned hierarchy , namely the sheer numbers of those seeking posts .
11 The decision to use a video recorder or an audio recorder will depend upon a number of considerations , including the reason for making the recording , the data which the teacher or therapist hopes to recover and the resources available for making recordings and for coding and/ or transcribing .
12 the reason for making the allotment
13 The reason for approaching the Archbishop in such a manner was essentially to ‘ force his hand ’ as , according to Mrs Whitehouse , he had frequently seemed unwilling to become involved in public debates on questions of morals .
14 To a certain extent these differences are common to all predators , and so may be ignored , because the reason for attempting the analysis of predator assemblages in the first place is to determine differences between them .
15 Nor is the fact that a document is biased a reason for dismissing the document as worthless or unreliable .
16 The most common type of instrumental argument relies , as a reason for recognizing the validity of consent , on the facts that the agent has the best information to judge whether it is best to create the right or not and that he is sufficiently motivated to act for the best .
17 Even the Secret Committee had a reason for allowing the Rescript to be promulgated : by committing itself to a relatively modest programme of reform , the government seemed to be discouraging radicals from pressing their case .
18 Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office .
19 They used the doctor 's appearance and concern as a reason for stopping the interview and made plans to return the next morning .
20 Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages .
21 The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry :
22 A court may regard the likelihood of the hearing making a difference as a reason for denying the necessity of natural justice or fairness , or it may influence the exercise of the discretionary power to grant a remedy .
23 The commitment to assessing needs in a gender-sensitive as opposed to gender-biased way must not be a reason for ignoring the way old women define their roles .
24 However , this in itself is not a reason for abandoning the term rape .
25 It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively .
26 But that 's no reason for repeating the exercise !
27 has said that actual damage is an essential ingredient in unintentional trespass to the person and if this is so there is no reason for distinguishing the case of trespass to goods .
28 The rudder felt as if it were covered with barnacles , and the engine sounded old and tired , but there was no reason for grounding the plane .
29 Both Tait and Stewart were staunch churchmen ; their book set out to show that modern science gave no reason for abandoning the belief in personal immortality .
30 If the seduction misfires , if the woman does not consent , then there is no reason for attenuating the degree of her non-consent … a seduction that ends in rape is still rape . ’
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