Example sentences of "this be [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | What follows from this is that reason can not survive unless general values of this kind are maintained . |
| 2 | This is one reason why the DSS has never paid this subsidy to single parent families . |
| 3 | Maybe this is one reason for depression , then : that the book 's well-wrought arguments will not exercise those whose ideology it dissects . |
| 4 | This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers . |
| 5 | This is one reason why the Yugoslav government has tried to avoid raising the price of foreign exchange . |
| 6 | This is one reason why libraries do not always weed as much as they need to . |
| 7 | This is one reason why metallic inks , such as gold or silver , were common . |
| 8 | This is one reason why over one million pensioners who would be entitled to supplementary pension are not claiming , although the benefits are a right , not a charity , and we all pay for them through our taxes . |
| 9 | Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine . |
| 10 | This is one reason why the fields around Rise , in particular on Park Farm , were so large . |
| 11 | This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life . |
| 12 | This is one reason why third-world national liberation movements found the 19th-century traditions , both liberal and revolutionary-democratic , so congenial . |
| 13 | A novel with a straightforward chronological organisation is likely to be less demanding than one which makes use of flashbacks ( this is one reason why young readers generally find Jane Eyre easier than Wuthering Heights , for example ) . |
| 14 | This is one reason why there was a growing interest in timeshare in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and our next case is centred around this . |
| 15 | This is one reason why policy makers never seem to take account fully of the people affected by their decisions . |
| 16 | ( This is one reason for giving more attention to economic movements and social structure than our predecessors would have done . ) |
| 17 | This is one reason why firms are often most willing to start with a clean sheet of paper when setting up a new subsidiary , as Britain 's Midland Bank did when it established First Direct , its successful telephone-banking business . |
| 18 | This is one reason , probably , why Mr Perot speaks far less about deficit reduction than he once did , and spends far more time shooting at easy populist targets , such as NAFTA and wicked foreign lobbyists . |
| 19 | perhaps this is one reason why , despite the Eurocentrism of his intended historical schema , Sartre himself could certainly not be accused of ethnocentrism in his politics ; already the first Critique contains substantial analyses of the political and psychological structures of colonialism and racism , even if they have to be , as always , ‘ dissolved in History ’ ( I , 716 ) . |
| 20 | Compensating deposits or balances are usually demanded as collateral before loans are allocated and this is one reason why corporate savings are also higher in Japan . |
| 21 | Those firms that rely heavily on subcontracting though , do have a vested interest in offering at least some protection to their main suppliers and this is one reason why the small firm sector has survived . |
| 22 | This is one reason why standards and routines represent an important dimension of housework behaviour . |
| 23 | Unfortunately such capital inflows tend to be very volatile in nature , as we have seen in earlier chapters , and this is one reason why this option did not provide a permanent or reliable solution . |
| 24 | This is one reason , perhaps , for the caution of successive governments . |
| 25 | This is one reason why it has become routine among Christian writers to warn against a god-of-the-gaps . |
| 26 | This is one reason why we do not restrict the use of " style " to what we have called stylistic variation , ie " styled " . |
| 27 | Perhaps this is one reason why the observer seems to stand apart from the scene he experiences . |
| 28 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 29 | Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier . |
| 30 | This is one reason for not relying too much on library books . |