Example sentences of "[art] reason why the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 2 | The reason why the present government nevertheless eventually sanctioned this book is that it mainly covers the war years , when the secret services were inevitably more widely tolerated than at other times . |
| 3 | The reason why the latter seem more likely is that it is on these major industries that much of the future competition among states for wealth-creating resources will be focused . |
| 4 | ’ I think the reason why The Lost Boys was so successful was because a lot of people can relate to someone like David . |
| 5 | When Jenson continues that the reason why the biblical God is called ‘ Father ’ is that the attempt is being made to get away from sexuality , with which women are more naturally to be associated , we may think that he has given the game away ! |
| 6 | And , curiously , it took a rugby league man , Graham Lowe , the New Zealander who has been an outstanding coach at home , in England and now in Sydney , to really pin-point the reason why the All Blacks did not retain the Webb Ellis Cup . |
| 7 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 8 | Several contemporaries suggested that the reason why the modern Whigs were losing support was because they had deserted old Whig principles . |
| 9 | ( j ) A point sometimes missed by students is that the deception need not relate to the reason why the accused is paying for a service . |
| 10 | The reason why the two sets of coefficients in equations ( 3.3 ) and ( 3.4 ) should be the same under rational expectations can be seen clearly if we subtract equation ( 3.4 ) from equation ( 3.3 ) to obtain : |
| 11 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 12 | The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 13 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 14 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 15 | This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research . |
| 16 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 17 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 18 | The reason why the seventies are so often dogged by aches and pains is that sufficient care has not been taken during the fifties and sixties . |
| 19 | I 've prepared the amendment in the in in removing the port er Mr Chairman I think it 's erm important to note the reason why the public protection committee have asked the report to be put onto the council agenda . |
| 20 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 21 | The reason why the Free Church was concerned with the political activities of some of its members was that it saw its main purposes as evangelism and the servicing of church life . |
| 22 | Is that the reason why the hon. Member for Islington , North will be swept away by the excellent Tory candidate in his constituency ? |
| 23 | The reason why the original bill was split into two Criminal Justice Acts is explained in Chapter 4 . |
| 24 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 25 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 26 | There is no reason why the present tense can not be used . |
| 27 | There is no reason why the simple milk diet ( whether natural or otherwise ) of the normal baby should cause tummy ache . |
| 28 | There is no reason why the traditional counties should not emerge as part of the process , even if they are counties that have no administrative functions in certain places . |
| 29 | Our own conclusion from these various debates about employment effects is that there is no reason why the new technology should inevitably mean a massive reduction in employment . |
| 30 | If OUP are entirely satisfied with the method of text capture and with a reasonably large proportion of the machine-readable output ( say , the equivalent of one volume of OED ) , there is no reason why the first editing phase , i.e. the integration of OED and Supplement into a single work , should not be begun , assuming no other technical problems prevented this . |