Example sentences of "reason for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These identifications are part of the reason for their continued autonomy from the lowlands , in that they prevent the Buid from developing internal hierarchies which could be manipulated by more powerful state societies . |
| 2 | A close examination of these various experiments might reveal the reason for their discrepant findings . |
| 3 | Some patients may have preexisting conditions , e.g. diabetes mellitus , which , although not the reason for their current admission , may affect their care . |
| 4 | One reason for their long-term viability derived from the extent to which they reflected the ideas of the non-governmental intelligentsia . |
| 5 | The reason for their excellent wickets , he said , was that he 'd changed from Mendip loam to Surrey loam . |
| 6 | Even though critics may not be as learned as their art-historical colleagues , there is no good reason for their practised eyes to cloud over when looking at art of other periods . |
| 7 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 8 | However , it should not be the only reason for their creative activity , which should rather stem from less egotistic desires . |
| 9 | Intrastrand crosslinks are considered to be relatively difficult to repair ( 2 ) and this may be the reason for their marked effectiveness of cisplatin against tumours of germ cell origin ( e.g. testicular and ovarian tumors ) . |
| 10 | They will be aware that the reason for their educational success in the first place was the high proportion of their intake coming from social classes 1 and 2 . |
| 11 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 12 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 13 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that the failure of the lobon-gur solution to halt the purging was cited as a reason for its low usage rate in Chapter 6 . |
| 15 | However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder . |
| 16 | Whether or not this is so , the importance of the military is clear and so is the reason for its close consultation on policy for both strategic and economic reasons . |
| 17 | But the percentage of germination is very low , which was another reason for its poor survival prospects . |
| 18 | The reason for its traditional importance as a trading centre is obvious from a glance at the map . |
| 19 | Clinically the reduced compliance in the great vessels will be manifest as an elevation of the systolic blood pressure , which is perhaps the reason for its frequent occurrence in the diabetic subject ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | One possible reason for its comparative success , and one which I stumbled on in all innocence at that time , was that its subject and setting were limited . |
| 21 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 22 | Although that ’ internal ’ needs noting , the restraint — even encouragement — which Mr Gorbachev shows Hungary is another reason for its growing self-confidence abroad . |
| 23 | Much of the effort of Althusserian Marxism was taken up with trying to produce such a theory , and it was the failure to produce it that perhaps was the main reason for its subsequent collapse . |
| 24 | There is a simple reason for its relative anonymity As far as can be ascertained the future of Cotherstone cheese appears to be in the hands of one lady , And she refuses absolutely to communicate with the media . |
| 25 | This is probably the reason for its universal acceptance as something to be cherished , and for its survival despite all religious disapproval which from time to time has endeavoured to denigrate it , as did for example , some of the teachings of Puritanism . |
| 26 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 27 | What is problematic about this is the common assumption that it is caused by , and in turn indicates , some relationship of efficiency between the object and its use , such that this is the prime reason for its particular form , being either the natural outcome of adaptation , or the product of deliberate design processes for industrial goods . |
| 28 | The fact that much modern art is quite unmemorable — and modern music particularly so — is perhaps a result of formal weakness , and is certainly the reason for its perishable quality . |
| 29 | That was the reason for her disquieting responses to the beautiful gifts and the disturbing change in her . |
| 30 | ‘ Who are we expecting , then ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who , like all good servants , was beginning to identify herself with her employers , and was one reason for her surprising success as a maid of all work . |