Example sentences of "[conj] for the [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 2 | We 've already designated Spectra or Dyneema line for your stunter and for the good reason that this material is not only lightest for its strength , but that it also has the property of sliding on itself even with as many as fifteen twists between flyer and kite . |
| 3 | And for the opposite reason we neglect variations in the numbers of those who are brought up as seafaring men for these variations are too slow to produce much effect in the year or two during which the scarcity of meat lasts . |
| 4 | More than twenty years later , at the end of World War Two , Pound , in a prison-stockade awaiting trial for treason , was still celebrating Anchises in the same strain , and for the same reason : |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the partner does not make use of this opportunity , because he , too ( and for the same reason ) , pretends to be asleep and fears to budge . |
| 6 | The LEA 's decision to allow the child 's admission to the school was challenged by the Commission for Racial Equality , which asked the Secretary of State to use his default powers in the 1944 Act and quash the LEA 's decision , on the ground that the decision was racist and would encourage other parents to pursue the same course as Mrs C and for the same reason . |
| 7 | Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same . |
| 8 | But they too were in danger of meeting the same fate , and for the same reason : the document safeguarding the rights of the monastic community , which St Thomas had intended to make , did not exist . |
| 9 | To be sure , they are political votes also , as they are in Britain , and for the same reason : candidates wear political labels . |
| 10 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 11 | Style often becomes as big a bugbear as colour schemes and for the same reason ; it means laying what passes for your taste on the table for all to judge . |
| 12 | This is an alternative to the knowledge test and for the same reason is therefore irrelevant . |
| 13 | And for the same reason Camel Lairds could not gain intervention funding . |
| 14 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
| 15 | Czerny also calls for this tempo in the Menuetto in Canone of Mozart 's String Quintet in C minor , KS16b/406 ( after the Wind Serenade , K384a/388 ) , and for the same reason , so that we can feel the hemiola crosswinds blowing from its first bars onward . |
| 16 | Similarly , and for the same reason , it is of the nature of text to under-determine its interpretation , particularly so in the case of literature , so that a text is objectively compatible with an open array of readings relativised to different contexts and interests . |
| 17 | She braved herself to meet his eyes , wondering if he too had lost his appetite and for the same reason as her . |
| 18 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 19 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 20 | Less happily , but for the same reason , repossessed houses are often auctioned . |
| 21 | As it transpired , he was right , but for the wrong reason . |
| 22 | It 's contracting not only as regards the Walsall trade , but for the simple reason that hides and skins at ma v very largely found in the countries of Asia , Africa and South America . |
| 23 | If all these are in order than see if anyone has replaced any of the chassis outriggers in the past ( as for the some reason 6 cyl station wagons suffer more than their fair share of chassis rust ) and that they have been replaced accurately . |