Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] reason [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the parties have identified the goods which the buyer is to have , no property can pass from the seller to the buyer for the simple reason that it is impossible to tell in which goods the property is passing . |
| 2 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
| 3 | Gregory 's Pastoral Care said nothing about this aspect of a bishop 's work for the good reason that jurisdictions such as that claimed by Canterbury did not exist in his day . |
| 4 | He is shown taking off his armour for the pathetic reason that he is not ‘ master of his heart ’ . |
| 5 | Even the propaganda of the London Labour and Socialist movement , said the provincials , served to provide votes for the Liberal Party machine for the simple reason that London Labour had no organisation that could reap the result of its own propaganda . |
| 6 | The Councils could never rid themselves of their reputation as just another manifestation of Political Dissent for the simple reason that the charge was essentially true . |
| 7 | Most formal models of trade union wage-setting behaviour are unable to answer questions about membership for the simple reason that they assume membership is fixed at 100% . |
| 8 | Beavers use flotation for the same reason as Canadian lumber companies use rivers and eighteenth-century coal merchants used canals . |
| 9 | Brown can not be deputy leader for the straightforward reason that an all-Scottish ticket would put off the English . |
| 10 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |
| 11 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 12 | Velikovsky 's Worlds in Collision produced an overreaction from the scientific establishment for the simple reason that Velikovsky had cast his net far and wide in search of supporting evidence for his theory . |
| 13 | ‘ I wo n't be a jealous , possessive husband for the simple reason that I 'm not in love with you . ’ |
| 14 | Suddenly , Damian 's own words floated back to her : ‘ I wo n't be a jealous , possessive husband for the simple reason that I 'm not in love with you . ’ |
| 15 | As we 've noted , all forms of life on Earth depend on water for the simple reason that life 's very origin on this planet involved water . |
| 16 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 17 | Correct two points Hungary had no navy for the simple reason that it did not and does not have a sea . |
| 18 | There is now little purchase in trying to run the ball for the simple reason that the penalty if you fail to sustain the movement is too great . |
| 19 | It 's not a position where A number of people have the idea that it ca n't be a beneficiary , it can , it often is a beneficiary for the obvious reason that if the beneficiaries are getting the goodies , why not make them do the work necessary to get hold of them ? |
| 20 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
| 21 | There was a lot of support from your colleagues if you were in trouble for the very reason that they knew if they gave you help , you 'd automatically give it them . |
| 22 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 23 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 24 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 25 | In the unlikely event that someone other than Lorton had killed Newley , the murderer might have left behind both guinea and ransom for the simple reason that he did n't know they were there . |
| 26 | ‘ Games can be cancelled in the Midlands Senior League for the slightest reason and the opposition is not up to standard . |
| 27 | But this was shown to be an unattainable goal for the simple reason that the meaning of an existential proposition can not be made fully clear without making use of some existential proposition or other as part of the explanans . |
| 28 | He buys a hugely expensive house for the sole reason that it has a view over the bay of a winking green light from Daisy 's house . |
| 29 | Vandalism , for example , might be thought of as a collection of clearly identifiable acts requiring sanction for the simple reason that they offend against the property , both individual and collective , of members in society . |
| 30 | But that was not much consolation because that too is subject to a steam restriction for the same reason and diesel haulage was again in place . |