Example sentences of "and for [art] [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 2 | Perhaps , but temporarily and for a well-attested reason . |
| 3 | Later in the season , plants offer animals food of a different kind and for a different reason . |
| 4 | The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture , and for no visible reason arrived on a plate . |
| 5 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , and for no good reason , Liverpool 's Kop invented : ‘ We all agree , Tiswas is better than Swapshop ’ and , on a more highbrow note , Stoke City fans sang : ‘ Land of Smoke and glory ; Home of Stoke City ; Higher , higher , higher ; On to victory … |
| 7 | They said that Hamish Deans had unilaterally and for no good reason prevented the signing of the former Celtic striker Andy Walker , now with Bolton , after the player had agreed terms with Falkirk . |
| 8 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 9 | Cat owners often notice that their pet will suddenly and for no apparent reason make a headlong dash through the house . |
| 10 | At times Rubberneck wept , shed , and for no apparent reason , bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness . |
| 11 | This time , and for no apparent reason , the grip of a woman by the hair of her head . |
| 12 | Frequently and for no apparent reason , there would be a chilling burst of wind and a roar as of a passing train . |
| 13 | In both conditions the fear is qualitatively different from normal anxiety , has sudden onset , and occurs without warning and for no apparent reason . |
| 14 | After an hour , and for no comprehensible reason , the police removed their cordon . |
| 15 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 16 | She liked Clara because Clara was bright , and for no other reason : she had no need to like her for any other reason , as she was well equipped with a busy social life and a lover . |
| 17 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 18 | That 's why you 're getting a lift and for no other reason . |
| 19 | The Austrian Empire , the Russian Empire , the French Republic , ‘ poor little Belgium ’ , everybody fought for the privilege of committing social and collective suicide on a spectacular scale , and for no particular reason . |
| 20 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 21 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 22 | ‘ I think he 's best avoided , ’ Ellen said in an unexpectedly sober voice , and suddenly , and for no particular reason on a very warm night , we both shivered . |
| 23 | With registered designs , the person creating the design is known as the author but , and for no explicable reason , the person creating a design which is subject to a design right is known as its designer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And for the opposite reason we neglect variations in the numbers of those who are brought up as seafaring men for these variations are too slow to produce much effect in the year or two during which the scarcity of meat lasts . |
| 26 | The other eccentric giant is Venice , and for an opposite reason , for it is the only great city of Italy which had no classical past . |