Example sentences of "reason [prep] that is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for that is simple . |
| 2 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 3 | The reason for that is principally to protect people who are hunting ; I think that is unreasonable . |
| 4 | The main reason for that is John Birt , the BBC 's boss , and his belief that Radios One and Two must be different to justify their bit of the licence fee . |
| 5 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 6 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 7 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 8 | Now , this happens in nearly all er cases o of tuberculosis but , interesting , the vast majority of infections microbacterium tuberculosis are asymptomatic and the reason for that is that after a period of growth and dissemination does not lead to clinical symptoms , cell mediated immunity , C M I , comes into comes into play and you end up with a balance between the macrophages , and fi and M T B , where there 's a constant turnover of macrophages dying , and M T B winning out . |
| 9 | The reason for that is because those two notes also come in the minor scale . |
| 10 | He describes himself as having ‘ worked his way single-mindedly downwards ’ since a burst of popularity on the Sixties satirical circuit — and part of the reason for that is his determined production of radical anthems regardless of political or musical fashion . |
| 11 | As I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware , the reason for that is that the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of the year because it is used for heating . |
| 12 | Perhaps the reason for that is similar to a reason given to George Ward , my predecessor as Member for Worcester , who represented the constituency from 1945 to 1959 . |
| 13 | One reason for that is that most of the thousands of people who travel on those wretched trains to come to London to work are either unskilled or semi-skilled , to use the terms of the manufacturing industry . |
| 14 | The reason for that is that the spot market varies with the dollar exchange rate and , for a long time , has been affected by the dumping of coal into Europe — something about which British Coal has complained to the Commission . |
| 15 | The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside . |
| 16 | The reason for that is obvious . |
| 17 | The obvious reason for that is that the state pension is low . |
| 18 | I believe that the reason for that is that when the Bible is used in school or in church it is nearly always in the form of a modern version , which is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic . |
| 19 | Jack is in overall charge of the LDP sales company and the reason for that is to ensure that the same standards and disciplines of product development , point of sale and , most important , profitability are applied to LDP as to Stoddard Templeton . |
| 20 | The prospects for management buy-outs are really very bleak , the reason for that is that the franchises which we 're hearing about are likely to be very short , the franchisee will own no assets , no land , no rolling stock , nothing with which to go to the bank as security for loan . |
| 21 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 22 | Erm right so because trade in er trade in agricultural goods has fallen , one one of the reason for that is because there 's been a lot protectionism on er agricultural goods the other side of that coin is that protectionism in manufactured goods has has fallen okay . |
| 23 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 24 | Er the reason for that is as already mentioned , that a comprehensive assessment has n't been done . |
| 25 | The reason for that is that we do all our selling on the phone . |
| 26 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 27 | The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks . |
| 28 | The reason for that is they wanted to go ahead and produce the two lights . |
| 29 | The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint . |
| 30 | The reason for that is of course that this is significant to the syllabus that we 're doing , you know Chapter eleven is the beginning of Jesus coming into Jerusalem in his final final weeks . |