Example sentences of "not a reason " in BNC.
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1 | My own view is that these exceptions are so infrequent that they are not a reason for abandoning the neo-Darwinist mechanism as the one which underlies the vast majority of adaptive evolutionary changes . |
2 | This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics . |
3 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
4 | Nevertheless , although it is not a reason to pass over them as Todd does , a limiting factor in the work of experimental novelists in Britain does seem , as he suggests , to be that they are consistently assigned to marginal rather than mainstream positions . |
5 | For an office worker in the UK this is not a reason for complacency , but a source of opportunity . |
6 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
7 | THE property market will continue to be depressed through 1993 , although this is not a reason for you to become depressed . |
8 | Initially , they are stressful but that is not a reason to avoid them . |
9 | The fact that evidence does not support the prosecution 's case is clearly not a reason for regarding it as irrelevant ; and it is difficult to see how any recording of part of the actual event in issue could ever be so regarded . |
10 | It is not a reason for giving to the word ‘ appropriate ’ a meaning narrower than it would naturally bear . |
11 | But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice . |
12 | One danger in giving such an opportunity might be that it would give greater scope for industrial policy ( ‘ European champions ’ ) proponents , not least within the European Commission : however , that is not a reason for preventing DGIV from considering the point in a particular case , however sceptically . |
13 | This is not a reason why district ethics committees should yield to pressure to abdicate their responsibilities to local citizens . |
14 | However , this in itself is not a reason for abandoning the term rape . |
15 | An argument must be made for that — it is not a reason to mess up the rest of the country . |
16 | The IOC Medical Commission was aware of this , and , for this reason , the presence of a Y chromosome was not a reason for exclusion ; a complete physical examination was done before any decision about eligibility . |
17 | According to the Guidance : " The temporary nature of the interim order should be allowed for in the exercise of these responsibilities , but it is not a reason for not taking them seriously . " |
18 | It 's not a reason to stop farm visits . |
19 | This situation is not a reason to stop doing one 's job . |