Example sentences of "principal reason for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the relatively slow growth of productivity in many industries is one of the principal reasons for the increase in service sector jobs . |
| 2 | They erm , the Thames investment in Astra is er , another reason for , in fact the principal reason for the increase in associates and investments , working capital is a simple , a seasonal outflow which has been , again by the stronger dollar and the reduction in shareholders funds compared with the thirty first of December er , reflects the eighty six million pound good will write off on Thames . |
| 3 | For example , if it were shown that the reduction of through-traffic was the principal reason for the reduction in accidents , then it would be efficacious to dispense with the expensive street furniture and speed-reduction measures . |
| 4 | Since those warm springs were the principal reason for the existence of Baden in the earliest days , perhaps they should be dealt with first . |
| 5 | Stewart does not successfully refute the statement that the principal reason for the difference between the 1988 and 1990 forecasts was the reduction in HIV transmission among homosexual/bisexual men in the mid-1980s , the extent of which only became apparent between the reports . |
| 6 | Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ . |
| 7 | This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May . |