Example sentences of "[vb base] that the reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my observations suggest that the reason for this behaviour is display , rather than self-defence . |
| 2 | I suggest that the reason for the relatively precise meaning of the former stems from the fact that the concept plays a specific , well-defined role in a precise , structured theory , Newtonian mechanics . |
| 3 | Yet again , the optimal solution may be felt to be unsatisfactory and further reflection reveal that the reason for this is that some aspect of the problem has not been modelled adequately . |
| 4 | This explains , for example , how , faced with the sentence " Babar the King of the elephants went to a restaurant " ( p. 52 ) , we project our experience of real human beings onto the fictional character , and infer that the reason for Babar 's action must be the aim to satisfy his desire for food . |
| 5 | I suspect that the reason for a terminus in that town has more to do with the presence of several bonded warehouses than with objective computer modelling . |
| 6 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 7 | Now we all know that the reason for this inordinate six month delay was that the government could n't be sure of carrying a vote on anything European in the face of hostility from its Maastricht rebels , those the Prime Minister famously dubbed the illegitimate ones . |
| 8 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 9 | Note that the reason for the rise in the equilibrium rate of interest is that the higher income level will have brought forth an increased transactions demand for money . |
| 10 | I believe that the reason for this being such a common problem is that we live , in the Western industrialised world , in such a disembodied way . |
| 11 | I believe that the reason for that is that when the Bible is used in school or in church it is nearly always in the form of a modern version , which is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic . |
| 12 | Though her motivation is irrelevant in the sense that it matters not why she took the decision she did , I find that the reason for her refusal of a blood transfusion arises because it is contrary to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 13 | A third response is to agree that as things are presently constituted females do end up with poorer spatial visualisation skills by adolescence ( which may or may not affect the learning of mathematics ) , but then claim that the reason for this outcome is differential male-female learning experiences . |
| 14 | They argue that the reasons for underdevelopment in any given Third World country lie mainly within the country itself rather than in the position of the country within any particular part of the global capitalist system . |