Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps the most intriguing reason for the hold up comes from J. W. Carr in New South Wales . |
| 2 | The most usual reason for a tap to be dripping from the spout is a worn tap washer . |
| 3 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 4 | It was also due to a barbaric delight in high-sounding verbiage , and probably this was the most powerful reason for its use . |
| 5 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 6 | The most simple reason for something being buried is that people have buried it , and domestic waste is probably the most common example of deliberate burial . |
| 7 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 8 | Another less weighted but no less effective criticism is that those areas which most need really effective state intervention are the least likely to produce the conditions in which intervention can work , the most obvious reason for this being that deprived peripheral regions are , as Banfield noted , not locations attractive to administrative and political elites of the kind needed to implement the reforms . |
| 9 | So the timing may be right — but the most basic reason for owning precious metals is a healthy distrust of governments , their paper promises , their currency cardhouses , their assurances that this time everything will be all right . |
| 10 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 11 | The most important reason for questioning the traditional view , however , is that variation in initial h usage is a very common pattern in ME texts . |
| 12 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 13 | For the remainder of the non-enrollers , the most important reason for not doing the courses was : |
| 14 | Perhaps the most pressing reason for planting a new church is when the mother church is full . |
| 15 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 16 | Probably the most common reason for a company to ‘ go international ’ is insufficient growth in the domestic market . |
| 17 | Apart from the hurt feelings of departing managers , the most common reason for worrying about America 's spate of takeovers in the 1980s was that it pushed firms heavily into debt . |
| 18 | To these might be added ‘ binding ’ , which in the case of journals is often the most common reason for non-availability . |
| 19 | Glaucoma was the most common reason for treatment ( in 25 ) , followed by cataract extraction ( in 13 ) . |
| 20 | This is probably the most common reason for submitting new appeals . |
| 21 | During the 1950s , retrolental fibroplasia was the most common reason for visual handicap in children . |
| 22 | The most common reason for testing was screening for , say , those students who need remedial help . |
| 23 | Editor , — Gary P Bray draws attention to the fact that paracetamol is a common cause of morbidity and death in Britain and that it is the most common reason for intensive care for fulminant hepatic failure and liver transplantation . |
| 24 | The most common reason for early fits is a shortage of oxygen round about the time of birth , but that does n't apply in your case , as David breathed right away . |
| 25 | The most common reason for children returning to the danger areas was homesickness for parents and relatives , or parents worrying endlessly about them . |
| 26 | The most cited reason for the statistical correlation between strong structure goals and being the first ( or only ) child is the inexperience ( and uncertainty ) of the parents . |
| 27 | The results showed that Amasha was the least likely of the four to be treated with LGS and that Daeria , generally regarded as the most dangerous of the four , was the most likely reason for LGS usage . |
| 28 | The most likely reason for the incompleteness of the depth scaling is the presence of contradictory vergence angle information , which remained constant and appropriate for the 57-cm distance of the display screens throughout the experiments . |
| 29 | The most likely reason for continued propagation of the 1989 fissure , although in a slightly different direction beyond the postulated boundary , is gravitational slope failure on the western wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 30 | The most common form of challenging behaviour amongst this group , and hence the most likely reason for referral , was serious violence towards other people and the material environment . |