Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 2 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |
| 3 | This was one of the reasons why Bethune-Baker , who thought that everything obscure was woolly , regarded him as useless if not bad for the young . |
| 4 | It was one of the reasons that earlier discussions with Thames Television fell through — though Blackeyes was always designed as a movie or a BBC series . |
| 5 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 6 | Eventually , this was one of the reasons which led to its decline in 1971/72 . |
| 7 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 8 | A sporting interest in pursuing such failures was one of the reasons John le Grant stayed with Nicholas . |
| 9 | ‘ It was one of the reasons the middle class in Scotland felt the Union worked for them , ’ says Lindsay Paterson , of Edinburgh University 's Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland . |
| 10 | This was one of the reasons why Wordsworth and Jones were welcomed by the French in 1790 — |
| 11 | It was one of the reasons why my wife and I first became estranged . |
| 12 | The international aspect continued to be of importance and was one of the reasons why the Nationalist — a very costly venture — was kept going even when its existence could no longer be justified on any other grounds . |
| 13 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 14 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |
| 15 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 16 | Horsley 's CND activities went back to his days at Oxford , when the time he spent on demonstrations was one of the reasons for his third-class degree . |
| 17 | The American mink Mustela vison was one of the reasons for the speed of the early European exploration of North America . |
| 18 | Jasper had complained , had got chilblains , but even he had put up with it ; yet that was one of the reasons why he had been pleased to move in to live with her mother 's warmth , after a cold winter . |
| 19 | Indeed , as stated earlier , pupil motivation was one of the reasons why the Cockcroft Committee recommended a study of graduated assessment . |
| 20 | Well that was one of the reasons for doing |
| 21 | That was the trouble with Mrs Flaherty , you could n't trust her not to say the wrong thing in company , that was one of the reasons why she was the Wrong Element . |
| 22 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
| 23 | As lack of funds was one of the reasons for the BDDA 's national ineffectiveness an experiment was begun in 1928 to augment its income by the appointment of " official collectors " . |
| 24 | It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’ |
| 25 | That was one of the reasons she loved him , but she could n't go on doing it indefinitely — swearing that this time he had gone too far and it was the end and then having to console him . |
| 26 | She was accustomed to the barriers to understanding between the sexes , but it never ceased to annoy her : it was one of the reasons she had had to expel her mother 's lover . |
| 27 | ‘ That was one of the reasons , ’ admitted Sam . |
| 28 | It was one of the reasons she had been promoted so fast . |
| 29 | In fact , the continuing satisfaction of customers was one of the reasons for conversion . |
| 30 | That and the fees for Coroner 's post-mortems provided an income which was one of the reasons why his professional colleagues in the pathology department of the district general hospital both envied and resented his unpredictable absences on police work , the long days in court , the inevitable publicity . |