Example sentences of "[art] reason was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village . |
| 2 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 3 | The reason was that as a result of bullying some Asian children were afraid to eat Indian food at school . |
| 4 | The reason was that there were certain areas of Europe which were protected by the forces of only one NATO nation , and consequently these were particularly vulnerable to aggression . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason was that in re-structuring the press office , party chiefs had simply forgotten to allocate any special responsibility for Northern Ireland to any of its press officers . |
| 6 | The reason was that public confidence in the quality of the coinage depended on the retention of an ‘ immobilised ’ , i.e. unchanging , design ( see also p. 14 and fig. 9 ) . |
| 7 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 8 | The reason was that the ATB had not , as yet , had much contact with the area . |
| 9 | Eggs were always in short supply and I suppose the reason was that during the war we were not getting our usual supply from Denmark and the Low Countries , owing to the German occupation . |
| 10 | The reason was that the atmosphere was corrosive , mainly because of waste acid from the sulphuric acid plant , vented to the outside air . |
| 11 | The reason was that you had little or no awareness of what a bad situation you were in . |
| 12 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 13 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 14 | Rumours abounded that the reason was that Magdalene ( a pupil of Mozart 's ) had also been the composer 's mistress , and that her unborn child was Mozart 's . |
| 15 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
| 16 | The reason was that the latter had been given , once and for all , a large grant of power in a defined sector . |
| 17 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 18 | The reason was that at midnight , five-and-a-half hours after the evening 's entertainment was due to begin , further education , tertiary and sixth form colleges left county council control . |
| 19 | The reason was that his pain , although it was still there , was no longer a part of him . |
| 20 | And the reason was that er part of the area at a pond near the was erm an ancestral home of the newt . |
| 21 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 22 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 23 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 24 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 25 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 26 | The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time ! |