Example sentences of "[prep] the reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |
| 2 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |
| 3 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 4 | For the moment detectives are stumped for the reason for the attack . |
| 5 | If you leave , if you leave let's say if you get caught and sent back then you 're gon na get back you know twice as much as you had for the reason for leaving . |
| 6 | and I wonder if I could have an explanation for the reason for that very high increase . |
| 7 | For the mnoment detectives are stumped for the reason for the attack . |
| 8 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 9 | Sympathy with the person involved is often mentioned as the reason for cautioning someone rather than charging them . |
| 10 | Although imperfect marketing has been cited by historians as the reason for Victor 's failure , in fact there may have been a simple operational reason . |
| 11 | Waddingtons pleads international standardisation as the reason for the change . |
| 12 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 13 | The urge to stop the car will not qualify , but that which served as the reason for stopping , namely to assist a distressed animal , well might . |
| 14 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 15 | It cited Friday 's announcement by Fujitsu that it is lowering its earnings forecast to show a substantial loss for the fiscal year ending March 31 as the reason for the review ; the review affects 120,000m of yen-denominated bonds , a $330m bond , a 320m Swiss franc issue and a 200,000m commercial paper programme , it noted . |
| 16 | In its March 17 press release , COSE gave as the reason for its existence as ‘ increased customer demand for consistent technologies across multiple systems , greater technology choice , increased cost savings and quicker time to market . ’ |
| 17 | In Lord Dundas 's patronage book , for example , an entry states that one of Dundas 's political friends , Colonel Erskine , wished Mr. McVay , the officer of excise at Denny in Stirlingshire , to be advanced in rank , citing as the reason for seeking such promotion that the man was the son-in-law of Napier of Craigannet , a freeholder of the county . |
| 18 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 19 | ICL plc software house , Transaction Point Ltd , Reading , Berkshire , went into liquidation last week citing recessionary trends as the reason for its collapse . |
| 20 | IBM cites rescheduling problems as the reason for the delay . |
| 21 | In its March 17 press release , COSE gave as the reason for its existence ‘ increased customer demand for consistent technologies across multiple platforms , greater technology choice , increased cost savings and quicker time to market . ’ |
| 22 | Kochen cited DEC 's need , under current financial conditions , to look at all significant investments as the reason for the review . |
| 23 | By adopting a contractual conception of the company the legal model gives as the reason for the vesting of centralized authority to manage the company in the board of directors the contractual agreement of the owners of the company . |
| 24 | Older people identify improvements in material circumstances such as housing , diet and general prosperity , and improved and more widely available health care , as the reason for improved health . |
| 25 | In contrast the younger members of the sample were more likely to favour health education/promotion as the reason for improved health . |
| 26 | He is not impressed by the idea of suggestion as the basis of crowd behaviour , for no explanation is given by simply referring to the suggestibility of people as the reason for crowds being influenced by leaders . |
| 27 | However , in ten of the twelve cases heard , Douglas Herd 's statement of June 1986 was quoted as the reason for the withdrawal of funding . |
| 28 | National and party interest thus combined to make Sonar Law promote a coalition , but it was the national interest that was cited as the reason for joining Asquith . |
| 29 | Similar proportions in both groups cited lack of efficacy as the reason for dropping out but slightly more patients in the tricyclic group cited side effects ( 2445 ( 18.8% ) v ( 15.4% ) in serotonin reuptake group ) . |
| 30 | In 1991 , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , then minister for health , even went so far as to use section 118 as the reason for not being able to give parliament information about the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines . |