Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] of reasons [adv] " in BNC.

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1 There are a variety of reasons why , despite this new move , you may still wish ( or be obliged ) to bring a wrongful dismissal claim in the civil courts , for example :
2 There are a variety of reasons why people choose a register office wedding .
3 As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences .
4 It seems that there are a variety of reasons why an increasing number of European and North American trees are becoming damaged or killed .
5 As one might expect from the discussion elsewhere in this chapter , there are a variety of reasons why adjustment to monetary union is not likely to be spread evenly across space .
6 ‘ There are a host of reasons why even outstanding candidates do badly , ’ says Peter Boorman , the principal of Davies , Laing & Dick .
7 Small believes there are a number of reasons why his flock suffers such heavy fox predation .
8 There are a number of reasons why lone parents may not receive maintenance including the unwillingness or inability of liable relatives to pay maintenance , perhaps because of unemployment or the formation of second families .
9 There are a number of reasons why maintenance research is less attractive than productivity research in general , and particularly so for marginal areas .
10 There are a number of reasons why crimes are not reported to the police and thus not recorded in the official criminal statistics .
11 There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation .
12 There are a number of reasons why males might be more vigilant than females , but at the moment the evidence supports three hypotheses .
13 There are a number of reasons why His Friend Chris is perhaps not the ideal chairman for the election .
14 There are a number of reasons why these filamentous algae flourish , the two most common being too much light ( artificial or sunlight ) and too few aquarium plants .
15 There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject .
16 Sadly , there are a number of reasons why Khat is unlikely to catch on .
17 There are a number of reasons why this is so .
18 There are a number of reasons why this relationship between change and evaluation deserves emphasis :
19 There are a number of reasons why many socialists have argued strongly for the replacement of market mechanisms by state planning .
20 There are a number of reasons why people lose their hair , stress is a very key factor .
21 There are a number of reasons why it is difficult to compare lexical access systems .
22 There are a number of reasons why I have chosen to express these findings in terms of number of word-strings rather than in average number of words at each choice point ( branching factor ) .
23 More specifically , there are a number of reasons why it should have come about .
24 There are a number of reasons why we need to make sure that we are in at the starting post in terms of links with Central and Eastern Europe .
25 There are a number of reasons why primary product prices should have begun to rise in real terms around this time .
26 There can be a host of reasons why this is the case , including the physical access , communication difficulties , the suitability of provision , or the absence of appropriate support .
27 There may be a number of reasons why urban population loss has moderated .
28 There were a number of reasons why authorities began to look more carefully at older industrial property .
29 There were a lot of reasons why she did n't want to get involved in Maxim 's domestic life , particularly when he seemed to be intent on jumping from the tenth storey of his career structure — but in the end , why not ?
30 Erm there 's a couple of reasons really , one was to get the free gift
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