Example sentences of "[prep] [art] reasons for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping her tears with the corner of her apron and clutching the baby to her she searched for the reasons for this volte-face . |
| 2 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 3 | One of the reasons for such ambiguity is that the members of the legislature in enacting the statutory provision may have been told what result those words are intended to achieve . |
| 4 | What I want to suggest is that far from representing a glorification of a golden age , confident and stable in its social organisation , The Faerie Queene exemplifies a very uneasy social and cultural fabric and I want to indicate some of the reasons for that unease . |
| 5 | If that were all Olson were saying , then it would be reasonable enough and would provide an interesting basis for historical study of the reasons for specific literacy practices in specific cultures . |
| 6 | As one of the reasons for European expansion , Sir Geoffrey cited the need to maintain buying-power in the face of global manufacturers . |
| 7 | Many of the reasons for widespread failure of conservation programmes and policies are the same as for failures in some other development programmes in lesser developed countries . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for big look up tables is that the prototype system . |
| 9 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |
| 10 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 11 | This chapter will attempt to determine some of the reasons for this state of affairs and then will go on to suggest ways in which teachers can overcome these problems . |
| 12 | One of the reasons for this popularity is the tremendous degree of choice . |
| 13 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 14 | Doubtless one of the reasons for this approach is that Parliament is presumed to have considered the interests of those who will be affected by the undertaking or works and decided that benefits from them should outweigh any necessary adverse side effects . |
| 15 | The present policy of the UK government towards the exchange rate , to which we alluded in Section 9.5.1 , is to prevent depreciation , and one of the reasons for this policy is an anxiety that a depreciating pound would raise costs of imports and thus cause a further deterioration in the inflationary situation . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for this improvement was the radical shift in the status quo of broadcasting that took place in November 1982 , when the new fourth channel went on the air . |
| 17 | I think we are all agreed that we should aim at keeping the moratorium in place , at least until the year 2000 — I wo n't go into the reasons for that choice — and that meanwhile we do n't necessarily have to try to resolve the ideological problems . |
| 18 | There is speculation as to the reasons for this trend . |
| 19 | At the same time , family disruption by separation and divorce looms large among the reasons for social work intervention . |
| 20 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |