Example sentences of "the reason given [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 2 | The reason given for selling is to raise funds for the restoration of the Rosebery seat , Dalmeny House , near Edinburgh , where the painting was on show to the public until a year ago . |
| 3 | Often , unpredictability is the reason given for doing nothing . |
| 4 | The reason given for the unique capacity of English to offer a truly democratic education is the peculiar nature of the poetic process : |
| 5 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 6 | The reason given for refusal was ‘ The proposed development would be in a prominent location within Scorton , and its construction would be unduly obtrusive in the street picture and detrimental to the character and appearance of both the Scorton Conservation Area and the Forest of Bowland AONB ’ ( See council minutes PL113 ) |
| 7 | The reason given for this is that the costs of installing and maintaining an accounting information system that computes individual cost centre rates is complex and expensive . |
| 8 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 9 | For the reason given above this might well be totally wrong for large values of time . |
| 10 | The reason given in around forty-five per cent of divorces and , if you believe the statistics , nearly 60,000 men are guilty of it , but fewer than 9,000 women . |
| 11 | No , for the reason given in my last answer . |
| 12 | Not , one hopes , for the reason given in 1848 by the Chief Justice , who argued that being black was " a great misfortune , but no crime " . |
| 13 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 14 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 15 | The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business . |
| 16 | As Table 2.10 shows , the single most important reason for taking a temporary job was that a permanent job was not available , although even then this was the reason given by only one third of all temporary workers . |
| 17 | Several trials reported the reason given by patients for dropping out from treatment . |
| 18 | The reason given by the agents for the cancellation was : " Stephane Grappelli is very seriously ill in Paris and is unlikely ever to tour again . " |
| 19 | FOOTBALLING people are famous for their turn of phrase , but I was still intrigued to see the reason given by Graham Taylor to justify his choice of Paul Ince as England 's latest captain . |