Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] reason for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most familiar reason for this is that most reproduction is sexual : an individual has two parents , not one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | During the 1950s , retrolental fibroplasia was the most common reason for visual handicap in children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The most likely reason for such sudden removal of woodland vegetation being clearance prior to agricultural cultivation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The most likely reason for this is vibrational coupling . |
| 11 | The more likely reason for this move is a ‘ tit for tat ’ reaction . |
| 12 | A more usual reason for slipped slates is corrosion of the original iron fixing mails . |
| 13 | A more common reason for brittle nails is repeated injury caused by heavy work or , for example , if your hands are in and out of water a lot . |
| 14 | She was being so ghastly and there was probably a very good reason for those locked rooms , if only he would tell her what they were . |
| 15 | ‘ A very good reason for those changes , Dr Cameron — the originals are all dead . ’ |
| 16 | Well , there 's a very good reason for this because as it happens erm Brighton was a filmmaking centre in the very earliest days . |
| 17 | There is a very sound reason for this provision . |
| 18 | There is a very sound reason for this in that depreciation is not a cash item and is one over which the departmental manager has little control . |
| 19 | ( There was in West Germany an especially cogent reason for this exclusion clause . |