Example sentences of "reason for the [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The reasons for the delay in provision of such items were , therefore , investigated , and these are set out in Table 2 , below .
2 This court held that the board was required to give reasons for the way in which it had reached its award , and that in the absence of such reasons its award was prima facie irrational .
3 The reasons for the conflict in the various forecasts lie in the fact that the demand for higher education depends on a multiplicity of factors including the distribution of entrants into HE by age , gender , social class , region of residence , parental qualification and family size ; the effects of unemployment and comprehensive education ; the national demand for graduate-level skilled labour ; and last , but by no means least , the effect of the supply of places on demand .
4 An action is relevantly similar if it too has the properties which constituted one 's reasons for the judgement in the first case .
5 As mentioned in the previous section , there are sound reasons for the slowdown in big-city population decline .
6 Among those in the middle age band , that is between 30 and pension age , the main reasons for the rise in the number of households are the increase in marital breakdown and the tendency for non-married people to live on their own ( Haskey , 1987a ) .
7 The main parties also agreed on constitutional changes to stem the influx of immigrants , one of the main reasons for the rise in attacks on foreigners .
8 However , there appear to be no obvious reasons for the variation in number of libraries in total , or their divisional spread .
9 There are two main reasons for the changes in these proportions .
10 As far as the increase for the part-time employees is concerned , the reasons for the increase in the salaries for full-time employees are irrelevant .
11 The reasons for the increase in unacceptable behaviour , he believes , are varied and complex .
12 Indeed , the relatively slow growth of productivity in many industries is one of the principal reasons for the increase in service sector jobs .
13 Some of the major reasons for the increase in resource consumption include a 23 per cent increase in Royline customers over the past year , a 60 per cent increase in the number and complexity of Back Office account enquiries and a 40 per cent increase in authorisation processing associated with online systems such as SWITCH , EDI and Cashline Reciprocity .
14 Two external factors suggest possible reasons for the increase in numbers .
15 Two external factors suggest possible reasons for the increase in numbers .
16 Suggest possible reasons for the increase in the velocity of circulation .
17 The reasons for the growth in local authority expenditure during the 1960s and early 1970s may be summarised as follows .
18 There were , suggested David Rees , three reasons for the growth in numbers :
19 The reasons for the difference in treatment of gilding and silvering by the Romans is not clear .
20 The deep reasons for the difference in numbers of species are unknown — assuming , that is , that there are deep reasons .
21 Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful .
22 The Reasons for the Decline in Population Growth Rate
23 The reasons for the decline in this sector of the housing market may be seen in terms of simple demand and supply analysis : the letting of accommodation has become less desirable for landlords and other forms of tenure have become more attractive for potential tenants .
24 Lower railway freight traffic , the stronger Canadian dollar and weak newsprint markets were the major reasons for the decline in net income .
25 It is relatively easy to identify the immediate or ‘ proximate ’ reasons for the decline in births ( Bongaarts and Potter 1983 , see Chapter 4 ) .
26 The reasons for the decline in profitability are lucidly and cogently analysed in an influential Marxist work by Glyn and Sutcliffe in 1972 .
27 Understanding the reasons for the decline in women 's employment after age 45 is important for community care policy , labour supply and pensions policy : older women are a major source of informal care for elderly people , yet are also a potential source of extra employees as the supply of school leavers declines during the 1990s .
28 Autonomous enterprises , for instance , will no longer yield their surplus automatically to the central government ( one of the reasons for the collapse in the Soviet tax base and the widening budget deficit ) .
29 One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas .
30 The reason for the fall in the clean price of the CD is simple .
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