Example sentences of "reason [adv] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This heavy burden of debt , especially among consumers , is a plausible reason why spending has slowed in recent months : borrowers are striving to ease their financial position by spending less and saving more than they otherwise would .
2 So the reason why males die more readily than females , and this is true for nature by the way , not just human levels , it 's a practical universal effect that the males die more readily than females , that males are ultimately selected for reproductive success for erm survival as such .
3 The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females .
4 so an important reason why Jesus came
5 It has already been stated that the miracle is important because it gives the clearest reason why Jesus healed .
6 The first reason why Jesus talked with this woman was very simply because he liked her !
7 There is also a good organizational reason why agencies fear appeals : appeals introduce uncertainty ( cf.
8 A second reason why bulls have taken heart is that , after a two-year IMF programme which ended in March , the government is now going for growth .
9 One reason why companies established in one member state are entitled to do business in another without setting up a permanent place of business in that state is that such a requirement might unreasonably inflate their costs .
10 Its notoriety and extremism , which was a principal reason why Mosley refused to get involved before the Second World War , was mainly due to the wild verbal excesses at its meetings .
11 The reason why teams have only
12 It is said the reason why Taurus ran into trouble was a reluctance to step on anyone 's toes .
13 One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves .
14 The reason why development has not yet proceeded is not the objection by Scottish Natural Heritage , but the refusal of planning permission by Lothian Regional Council because of the impact of a large number of houses in this sensitive location .
15 Another reason why firms choose to move is because of changing needs for space .
16 Herein perhaps lies the reason why feet have been so downgraded in our religious life .
17 ‘ The relative buoyancy of this sector in the early 1990s was one reason why Scotland has suffered less severely in the recession than the rest of the UK , ’ he added .
18 The abstract reason why species migrate is that environments change so that the best place to be varies with time .
19 In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up .
20 Progesterone is thus a mixed blessing and its presence in HRT is the single most important reason why women abandon it .
21 The main reason why women took up such work was undoubtedly poverty , resulting chiefly from either the low wages , sickness , unemployment or absence of the male breadwinner .
22 Failure to sell it was one reason why Mountleigh went into receivership — because of concern that the centre was built on contaminated land .
23 The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case .
24 We should bear in mind , however , that underlying the ‘ colonial ’ chronological argument and the Anglo-Norman argument , there is a more fundamental reason why scholars have been so willing to reject the evidence for [ h ] -loss .
25 It does , however , need much pre-planning and administration , which is probably the reason why competitions tend to be aimed at the national level , and involve high value prizes such as holidays and cars , so that consumer response is great enough to cover the costs of the promotion .
26 I just keep thinking that there must be a logical reason why Fernando let me go so easily — ’
27 The most important of these , the sheer efficiency of collection , was also the reason why Walpole found such political and popular resistance in trying to move towards an excise-based system , although over the century most of the commodities he would have included in his general excise did find their way into its embrace .
28 Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) .
29 It 's the reason why England have done so well in recent years , and , of course , it 's something that 's very close to my heart ’ .
30 Gets you , the reason why helicopters have n't been able to do loop the loop unless they 've got a lot of height , is because , obviously it pulls you up
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