Example sentences of "[be] [art] reason for " in BNC.

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1 A few weeks later , Mrs Wilson discovered for herself what she felt must have been the reason for the heart attack .
2 This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place .
3 So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far .
4 Fracture porosity may also have been the reason for relatively good reservoirs in these regions of anthracite and meta-anthracite rank : these gas fields are situated in a W.N.W.-E.N.E. striking , weak structural zone at the northern margin of the Bramsche Massif which , according to Stadler and R. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , is characterised by relatively late and deep reaching faults along with the ascendence of hydrothermal solutions and deposition of ore minerals were possible .
5 Rounding off the debate , Mr Key explained that the installation of the computer had been the reason for the reduction in the funding available .
6 As Opposition Front Bench spokesmen are murmuring , I will say that it has a Labour council ; that has been the reason for my increasing majority .
7 This situation has arisen particularly in the expansion of the Negro population into white communities and has been the reason for numerous bombings and other types of violence .
8 She thought , since Naylor now knew that she was n't the one responsible for ‘ advertising ’ their ‘ engagement ’ — which had clearly been the reason for his ‘ My office — now ! ’ command — that now might be as good a moment as any to leave .
9 This may have been the reason for his poor showing . ’
10 Such ‘ distortions ’ are the reason for persistent advocacy , particularly from parties suffering these electoral evils , of a change in the voting system .
11 Grands projets apart , it is the philosophy of art for the people , both in large cities and in small communities , the encouragement of creativity , and the promotion of French culture worldwide that are the reason for the proliferation of museums and contemporary art centres and for the resurgence of the film and record industry .
12 What are the reason for my account the fact that there , they do n't obtain these higher wages because clearly there is this income gap the differential is driving the whole process , yet economic theory tells us that the migration should , should diminish that gap between income in urban and rural areas
13 If there had been no reason for the attack , it called for a severe sentence ; in one sense , revenge attacks , which themselves strike a blow at public justice , could be said to aggravate the gravity of the offence .
14 ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’
15 But since then there had no longer been a reason for them to meet .
16 That love continues , and one day will be the reason for his coming as Saviour and , yes , as Judge .
17 Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either .
18 This re-coalification , along with the good seal by evaporites of the Zechstein and Bunter Formations , seems to be the reason for the development of numerous gas fields on the South Oldenburg Ridge which , moreover , is characterised by a flat doming of the Upper Carboniferous and therewith by good conditions for gas accumulation .
19 If the changes revealed by this comparison have not been made prior to the audit commencing , this could be the reason for the failure to meet the target levels of attainment .
20 There must be money in it and that may be the reason for an attempt to fool the laboratory in its work with thermoluminescence .
21 In an age when homosexuality and abortion have been legalized , what could be the reason for an otherwise progressive body like the Warnock Committee to invoke the criminal law with a view to preventing a newly available reproductive technique from being practised between consenting adults ?
22 Middle-ear infections are frequently treated with antibiotics and this may be the reason for the increase in non-infected glue ear ( Smyth 1984 ) .
23 Aggie had explained to Ben what had turned out to be the reason for their invitation to tea ; and now she broke into his silence by saying , ‘ Well !
24 Intrastrand crosslinks are considered to be relatively difficult to repair ( 2 ) and this may be the reason for their marked effectiveness of cisplatin against tumours of germ cell origin ( e.g. testicular and ovarian tumors ) .
25 It could be the reason for everything .
26 The idea that it is normal to find a check in a piano action seems to be the reason for saying either that Stein used a check or that some part of his action functions as a check .
27 ‘ What on earth could be the reason for Williams killing Paul ? ’
28 This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification .
29 Certainly its thinking is complemented by a knowledge of the longer text which may be the reason for its appearing after both books of the Scale in the early printed editions .
30 Er and Professor is right that it was paragraph B er which at the time was A A er it 's now B B , that caused er me and er my colleagues some difficulty erm in er policy and resources and it will be the reason for which we do n't support it this afternoon .
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