Example sentences of "for the [adj] reason [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over-borrowing should have been shunned , for the elementary reason that a decline in over-geared profitability can destroy the net worth of shareholders . |
| 2 | For the above reasons and those contained in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , which I have had the privilege of reading in draft , I would allow this appeal on the ground that the courts are entitled to substitute some different protection in place of the privilege against self-incrimination , providing that such protection can properly be considered as adequate protection . |
| 3 | I do n't like the title , it 's probably done for the right reasons but … well … |
| 4 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
| 5 | I guess it is mildly amusing to see Bolan 's head emerge ghostlike from Elton John 's piano as the guesting Reg hammers out ‘ Children Of The Revolution ’ , though probably not for the right reasons and certainly not enough to detract from the leaden weight of the music . |
| 6 | They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 9 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 10 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 11 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 12 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 13 | This was not confirmed by Port Stanley for the good reason that we were no longer in contact with Port Stanley . |
| 14 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 15 | The minute stopped the Cabinet committee dead in its tracks — for the good reason that I was not prepared to go on . |
| 16 | We 've already designated Spectra or Dyneema line for your stunter and for the good reason that this material is not only lightest for its strength , but that it also has the property of sliding on itself even with as many as fifteen twists between flyer and kite . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These are caves you should see , for the good reason that they were lived in . |
| 19 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
| 20 | We shall never know , for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice , of every point of origin . |
| 21 | He had reluctantly decided against John Jasper , for the good reason that there being nothing distinctive about his dress , no one would realise who he was . |
| 22 | In London the supermarkets already dominate the milk supply business , for the good reason that they are open late at night which is when the singles do their shopping and can sell it much more cheaply , 35p against 40p . |
| 23 | Brown can not be deputy leader for the straightforward reason that an all-Scottish ticket would put off the English . |
| 24 | It is commonplace for what seems to be a general accord to disintegrate once the drafting exercise is attempted for the simple reasons that the specific expression of detailed terms may reveal misunderstandings between the parties or areas of previously unexplored contention . |
| 25 | In pensive vein he had published ‘ an early warning ’ in The Favourite Game against those who would follow ‘ our future leaders , the war babies ’ ; for the simple reason that while the world convulsed in its madness and death-throes , ‘ we grew up with toy whips , ’ ‘ games ’ played by old and young alike . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was interested in all this for the simple reason that as something that takes your fancy passes you , you only get a glimpse . |
| 28 | The unexpected usually occurs in military affairs for the simple reason that what can be foreseen can be deterred and so tends not to happen . |
| 29 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 30 | He had never invited anyone to dinner at the house , for the simple reason that they never had anything he could honestly call dinner . |