Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] reason be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most frequent reason is that the chairperson gets too involved in the task and does n't do enough to manage the process . |
| 2 | The most obvious reason is that the author only arrived on the scene at the end of the process , and has had to reconstruct the design and development phases from inevitably superficial interviews . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most important reason is that if the company should go bankrupt , the pension fund ( which is normally administered by an appointed financial institution ) would not be affected , which can be contrasted with a pay-as-you-go system where obviously there would be no employees left to finance current or future pension benefits . |
| 4 | This can be interpreted in a number of ways but the most likely reason is that customers were cashing in on relatively good prices as software vendors failed to keep pace with the rouble 's sudden plunge . |
| 5 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |
| 6 | But the publicly alleged reasons were as follows … ’ and Thucydides goes on to give them : quarrels between Athens and Corinth over Corcyra and Potidaia . |