Example sentences of "the main reason given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason given for restricting investment in new technology was cost . |
| 2 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |
| 3 | The main reason given by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for not making more of the data about the unoccupied group is related to the way in which child mortality is calculated . |
| 4 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 5 | We are told that the main reason given was the weakening of squadrons by withdrawing the best crews , Nevertheless after much procrastination , all of which is still clouded in the veil of " security " , the Pathfinder Force was formed on 15 August 1942 and its first Commandant was Gp Capt D.C.T. Bennett DSO ( later AVM , CB , CBE , DSO ) who was officially appointed on 5 July — the master airman extraordinary and navigator par excellence . |