Example sentences of "real reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a good enough excuse that you need to check for gaffs , but the real reason for dry-assembly is to see what this hitherto fictitious table looks like . |
| 2 | At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service . |
| 3 | Where people are crowded together , particularly when public order is in question ; where hazardous materials are being moved ; where traditional industrial disciplines and organisation are breaking down , as in parts of the construction industry , there is real reason for anxiety . |
| 4 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 5 | You could tell that the real reason people came into the shop was to hang out . |
| 6 | Then her married sister arrived at the house with news of her real reason for going each evening to the post office . |
| 7 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 8 | But the real reason is almost certainly the devastating impact which selling the pots-and-pans business could have on Corning and other small towns that depend on the company for their prosperity . |
| 9 | The real reason may lie in the clients : eighteenth century clients were men of taste and education , unlike the corporations of today . |
| 10 | But she could not tell him her real reason for trying to dissuade him . |
| 11 | The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country . |
| 12 | There is real reason to be afraid for Liam 's safety ? ’ |
| 13 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 14 | Oppenheimer 's ‘ defects of character ’ , the political indiscretions and Communist Front connections of his past , were seen to be an excuse for the real reason for his suspension : that the father of the A-bomb was ‘ lacking enthusiasm ’ and ‘ lukewarm ’ about the H-bomb . |
| 15 | ‘ But what was the real reason ? ’ |
| 16 | He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily . |
| 17 | The real reason why scientists should be seen as a menace is that they have reduced all our savings , our pensions ' prospects , our records of tax payment , citizenship , even of our existence , to a knot on a piece of plastic . |
| 18 | The real reason will differ for everyone . |
| 19 | Even if , as I believe , the British Paralympic team are not affiliated to the BOC , the real reason is , as ever , money . |
| 20 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 21 | Though there is no real reason not to talk of ‘ the new novel ’ , the term nouveau roman has always been retained , perhaps for a certain alluring foreign frisson . |
| 22 | But the real reason for his death was that , as archbishop of Prague , he challenged the power of the monarchy and won . |
| 23 | What 's the real reason ? ’ |
| 24 | But his real reason was that he was blind ; he was crippled in a land where a man 's worth was judged mainly by his physical ability . |
| 25 | But perhaps the real reason is to do with games of Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 26 | The real reason why a fluke is recognizably separate from its host , the reason why it does n't merge its purposes and its identity with the purposes and identity of the host , is that the fluke genes do n't share the snail genes ' method of leaving the shared vehicle , and do n't share in the snail 's meiotic lottery — they have a lottery of their own . |
| 27 | Ultimately , the real reason behind ‘ Operation Just Cause ’ lies in Panama 's importance to US ‘ interests ’ : the Panama Canal and the huge military facilities of USASC — the springboard for any future aggression and wars in Central and Latin America . |
| 28 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 29 | Emotional lability , in which the patient responds with exaggerated emotions , for instance bursting into tears without any real reason , is often a problem for stroke and head-injured patients . |
| 30 | Simply take something off or put something on , and your companion will never know the real reason you stopped . |