Example sentences of "[pron] was for [adj] reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |
| 2 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 3 | ‘ It was for personal reasons . ’ |
| 4 | It was for these reasons that I was unable to accept any of the submissions advanced on behalf of the applicant , and that I therefore concluded , in agreement with the other members of the Appellate Committee , that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 5 | It was for these reasons that a search for more elegant solutions was started in 1969–1970 . |
| 6 | It was for these reasons that Beveridge ( 1948 ) saw the role of voluntary activity fitting best on top of a sound comprehensive foundation of public social services . |
| 7 | It was for these reasons that the first ‘ valves ’ for radios and televisions and computers were evacuated glass vessels , descendants of Crookes ' radiometer and cathode ray tube , rather than semiconductors . |
| 8 | It was for these reasons that the United States in the late 1960s consistently opposed an increase in the official price of gold . |
| 9 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |