Example sentences of "reason that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 2 | It is for this reason that a major part of ISS is devoted to improving the staff-development of teachers , and in the period of implementation of ISS efforts have been directed to improving the Authority 's INSET and school self-evaluation procedures . |
| 3 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 4 | The reason that a widening direction is included is because it is very easy for a narrowing to occur while the lengthening process is taking place . |
| 5 | The reason that a protected tenancy , for example , does not fall within section 3 is because there is a separate regime of protection provided for such tenants . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that a large part of the first consultation is taken up by conversation . |
| 7 | Of course the reverse may also be possible , that hostility and resentment build up , but this is all the more reason that a social worker should continue to be available for old people in residential care and the families . |
| 8 | Even if the use of social class as a speaker variable were feasible in this rather fundamental practical sense , it would be unlikely to yield much insight into the interplay between social and linguistic differentiation ( for the rather obvious reason that a social class index can not distinguish in an illuminating way between members of a group who are mostly unemployed or concentrated in low-status occupations ) . |
| 9 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 10 | Brown can not be deputy leader for the straightforward reason that an all-Scottish ticket would put off the English . |