Example sentences of "[is] [art] reason [Wh adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Obviously this is the reason why the people concerned were all so visible to each other .
2 This is the reason why the matter has been discussed at length already by the Standing Committee , both in a Working Party and in a formal meeting .
3 This may be unfortunate but it is the reason why the NIRC was bound to fail .
4 This is the reason why the school authorities realized it would be useless to open school while the gleaning was still in progress .
5 Researchers believe that the formation of chlorine nitrate in the global stratosphere is the reason why the ozone depletion potential of chlorine is not as great as was originally feared on the worldwide scale .
6 This is the reason why the relationship between an attributive adjective and its noun is not the same as that between a predicative adjective and its noun ( and why attempts to relate them systematically in grammar are misguided ) .
7 It 's the reason why The Smiths are more powerful as a pop as art .
8 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 .
9 Of course there is no reason why the takeover of a football club should arouse greater interest than controversial manoeuvres in any other area of commerical life but this ignores the status Manchester United have acquired so the negotiations were bound to provoke serious misgivings .
10 When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China .
11 But there is no reason why the doctrine of justice actually reflected by the constitutional arrangements of a state may not be reached as a result of people realizing that their different ideals of the good , each leading to a different doctrine of justice , can not be implemented because of the widespread disagreement in society concerning their value .
12 [ T ] here is no reason why the law should not protect on a similar basis the enjoyment of other rights .
13 There is no reason why the same should not be the position here .
14 There is no reason why the biology teacher or the RE teacher should be competent to do it : there is a strong case for peripatetic experts who could be shared between groups of schools .
15 There is no reason why the methods outlined here can not be applied successfully to other basins .
16 There is no reason why the mention of the praetor should have been interpolated .
17 There is no reason why the ability to use a washing-machine or a pressure cooker should be limited to one person per household !
18 There is no reason why the simple milk diet ( whether natural or otherwise ) of the normal baby should cause tummy ache .
19 The assumption that the primitive cell experienced ‘ desire ’ is not as absurd as at first it might appear to be , for there is no reason why the magnitude of the capacity of all living creatures to experience pain and pleasure , in any form , should not be considered measurable into hypothetical units .
20 In most industries economies of scale usually lead to cost reductions , and within limits , there is no reason why the same principle should not apply to flying training .
21 A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal .
22 If negative visualization can be so effective , there is no reason why the positive and creative use of the imagination should not be just as effective .
23 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 .
24 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
25 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
26 The children of the prince and princess retain their position in the line of succession , and there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
27 There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
28 Normally the principal counsellee is a child ; but there is no reason why the process can not centre upon the problems of an older relative .
29 Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society .
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 .
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