Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the simple [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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% . |
| 5 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I wo n't be a jealous , possessive husband for the simple reason that I 'm not in love with you . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Correct two points Hungary had no navy for the simple reason that it did not and does not have a sea . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But he wo n't take anyone on full time for the simple fact that just takes one guy off the dole and and makes his life good . |
| 21 | Usually an owner responds by placing the building on the market for the simple reason that most owners would rather sell to anyone than the local authority . |
| 22 | Erm at this stage for the simple reason that together with the erm promotion package , together with the wages package , we was both given a company car . |