Example sentences of "reason for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were both overt and covert reasons for the support of the Scheme by the Law Society , and the regional bodies , local Law Societies . |
| 2 | The majority of MPs in the Hague parliament believe that there are strong economic and social reasons for the continuation of the nuclear industry . |
| 3 | Currie ( 1987 ) provides reasons for the continuation of some form of medium term strategy . |
| 4 | He attacks Oesterley for falling into ‘ the common trap of interpretation ’ by formulating intelligible reasons for the dancing of a primitive . |
| 5 | The absence of any accepted divorce procedures , for instance , was probably one of the reasons for the rituals of ‘ wife sales ’ in the nineteenth century , continuing until at least the 1880s . |
| 6 | The reasons for the delay in provision of such items were , therefore , investigated , and these are set out in Table 2 , below . |
| 7 | Asked about the reasons for the success of the sale , the ebullient Tajan said : ‘ Firstly , my talent ; secondly , my talent ; and thirdly , excellent organisation ’ . |
| 8 | One of reasons for the survival of the S&C into the 1980s had been its ability to handle diverted WCML trains ; this continued despite withdrawal of Intercity services in the winter 1982–3 timetable . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for the survival of the category is the survival of educational institutions defined by it : special schools and units whose purpose is to cater for MLD/ESN pupils . |
| 10 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 11 | Clive Evers of the Alzheimer 's Disease Society points to a number of other reasons for the lack of registration and voting among residents . |
| 12 | Given the ‘ action ’ orientation of our research project , the analysis of unknown heroin use centred on two specific tasks : assessing the size of the hidden sector and , thus , reaching an overall estimate of the number of heroin users , to enable the Borough of Wirral to forecast future demands on its services ; and identifying variations in the drug career patterns of users in the hidden sector as compared to those of known users , in particular the specific reasons for the lack of contact with agencies . |
| 13 | There were a number of reasons for the lack of success . |
| 14 | The kinds of measure governments can adopt to combat the problem of allocative inefficiency due to imperfect competition depend for their efficacy on the reasons for the lack of competition . |
| 15 | The absence of a repetitive , frequent , easily recognisable motor pattern in the colon may be one of the reasons for the lack of data on colon motor activity in paediatric patients . |
| 16 | The appellant appealed pursuant to section 19A(2) of the Act on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge failed to consider a wide range of relevant factors in deciding whether to make the order ; ( 2 ) the judge applied the wrong test as to whether the appellant had acted unreasonably ; ( 3 ) the judge failed to give reasons for the making of the order and neither ascertained the amount of wasted costs incurred , nor what party had incurred the wasted costs ; and ( 4 ) had wrongly used the section 19A procedure to punish the appellant . |
| 17 | One of the main reasons for the identification of the number of elderly ( or any other age group ) suffering from any disease is to establish information for service delivery and the planning of future services . |
| 18 | The reasons for the surrender of their own control over policy-making by west European nations in the 1950s remain unclear . |
| 19 | This list is by no means exhaustive and is only intended to illustrate some of the most commonplace reasons for the non-reporting of crime . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Other reasons for the unpopularity of Ullapool with our lads were the lack of social relaxation and travel facilities . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There were many reasons for the revival of Labour fortunes . |
| 24 | There are no reasons for the withdrawal of funding for the grounds . |
| 25 | ‘ We are particularly concerned with the reasons for the attack upon your person . ’ |
| 26 | There are two reasons for the emphasis on demand , and they both relate to some of the premises built into the idea of ‘ structured dependency ’ . |
| 27 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 28 | First , the reasons for the expansion of the social services are not simply the desire and anxiety of successive governments to reduce unemployment , cheaply and speedily , as Bacon and Eltis claim . |
| 29 | What Williams ' study sought to disprove were the currently entrenched theories concerning the underlying reasons for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833 . |
| 30 | There seem to be two basic reasons for the ineffectiveness of much project work . |