Example sentences of "reason that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 2 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that in such cases there can be no conspiracy between the directors and shareholders on the one hand and the company on the other : Reg. v. McDonnell [ 1966 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that in Victorian novels the description of working-class interiors , as I have mentioned , invariably emphasizes their hard-won decency . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that in this book I ordinarily use kinship in its wider sense . |