Example sentences of "principal reason for [art] " in BNC.

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1 For example , if it were shown that the reduction of through-traffic was the principal reason for the reduction in accidents , then it would be efficacious to dispense with the expensive street furniture and speed-reduction measures .
2 The ‘ Falklands factor ’ would be seen as a principal reason for the Conservatives ' unexpectedly good showing in the local council elections that year , and , too , for the return of Margaret Thatcher for a second term as prime minister at the General Election of 1983 .
3 This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover .
4 Since those warm springs were the principal reason for the existence of Baden in the earliest days , perhaps they should be dealt with first .
5 The principal reason for the vast number of parses that may be suggested for relatively simple sentence constructions appears to be the subcategorization of verbs .
6 This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May .
7 Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ .
8 Stewart does not successfully refute the statement that the principal reason for the difference between the 1988 and 1990 forecasts was the reduction in HIV transmission among homosexual/bisexual men in the mid-1980s , the extent of which only became apparent between the reports .
9 They erm , the Thames investment in Astra is er , another reason for , in fact the principal reason for the increase in associates and investments , working capital is a simple , a seasonal outflow which has been , again by the stronger dollar and the reduction in shareholders funds compared with the thirty first of December er , reflects the eighty six million pound good will write off on Thames .
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