Example sentences of "reason [be] simply [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The definition of camp is as elusive as the sensibility itself , one reason being simply that there are different kinds of camp .
2 This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years .
3 The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s !
4 The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter .
5 One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes .
6 A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste .
7 Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures .
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