Example sentences of "[det] reason that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this reason that various commentators from different countries have argued that the path towards a more egalitarian distribution of income lies ‘ outside rather than inside schools , in social and economic change , rather than in educational change ’ . |
| 2 | It is for this reason that each authority is assessed for a contribution towards the ‘ pool ’ on the basis of its school population and non-domestic rateable value and is entitled to charge to the pool its expenditure on higher education courses . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that ordinary policemen and women dislike it when the typifications become confused , when decent and honest ‘ victims ’ of crime , for example , become ‘ trouble-makers ’ by taking the law into their own hands . |
| 4 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that totalitarian governments , and even quasi-totalitarian governments , employ censorship . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that one woman diarist writing during World War II was convinced that the introduction of a national health service would mean more to women than to men . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that many countries , including the UK , have adopted more flexible exchange rates . |
| 8 | It is for this reason that many experts prefer the expression " Islamic textile art " when describing oriental rugs , despite the fact that many of the items covered by this description will certainly have been woven by non Muslims and possess no trace of Islamic symbolism in their compositions . |
| 9 | It is as if riches are an intolerable burden to the truly free spirit , and it is for this reason that many men have voluntarily thrown away then money . |
| 10 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 12 | It is for this reason that this approach proved so helpful to Brooke-Rose when she chose to turn her creative attention to narratology . |
| 13 | It is for this reason that this group should be included in any study of the flexible workforce . |
| 14 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 15 | It is for this reason that most colleges run their Dip.HE programmes as part of degree-linked courses . |
| 16 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 17 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 18 | It is for this reason that these sorts of incident are particularly disliked by policemen and are marginalized to policewomen , wherever staffing levels allow . |
| 19 | A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too . |
| 20 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 21 | Again perfectly good adaptive reasons — they have two pairs of fins for the same reason that sensible aeroplanes , i.e. the aeroplanes that I used to design before people went crazy , have a wing in the front and a tailplane behind , and basically they do so because two surfaces — one in front of the other like that — is the minimum number of surfaces needed if you want to produce a vertical force through any point along your body . |
| 22 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |