Example sentences of "are [adj] reasons for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial . |
| 2 | There are many reasons for this popularity . |
| 3 | There are many reasons for this increase . |
| 4 | There are good reasons for this approach . |
| 5 | There are good reasons for this mechanism . |
| 6 | There are practical reasons for this arrangement : any manual system of record-keeping relies either on heavy duplication of information , sited wherever that information may be routinely required , or on a complex system of cross-referenced card-indexes which provide guides to relevant documentation . |
| 7 | There are various reasons for this change — financial economy , production convenience , the emergence of some imaginative designers , and not least the response to user needs . |
| 8 | There are various reasons for this misconception ; men are obliged to pray three times a day , and women are exempt from time-related duties , possibly because their loyalties would conflict with running a home and looking after children . |
| 9 | There are several reasons for this selection . |
| 10 | There are several reasons for this disharmony . |
| 11 | There are several reasons for this concern with dementia sufferers and with finding ways of sustaining them at home . |
| 12 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 13 | Thus there are twin reasons for this failure to adapt in these areas . |
| 14 | There are two reasons for this decision , one pragmatic , and the other a point of principle . |
| 15 | There are two reasons for this leakage . |
| 16 | There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals . |
| 17 | In purely linguistic terms , there are two reasons for this difference between Belfast and certain other studies . |