Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educational activities and annual leave , together provide the main reason for staff being unavailable for work . |
| 2 | We all know the real reason for Labour Group 's rejection of Employment Action . |
| 3 | Now er the things that of course was er was only different skill using colours and patterns but y y you understand that the Fair Isles were developed on pins , and you notice the patterns were always small and I think you know the practical reasons for that . |
| 4 | Here we review the studies on the effect of ethanol and alcoholic beverages on gastric acid secretion in humans and discuss the possible reasons for the apparently discrepant results . |
| 5 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 6 | The ‘ leopards and broom plants ’ , Plantagenet emblems , signify the dynastic reasons for which Henry the young king was killed , as were Rizzio and Mary 's husband Darnley centuries later . |
| 7 | I think the main reason for so many wasps this year is to , warm summers , and but it 's basically the long summer period , because we started , you see on the wasp complaints in May , which we do n't really start until half way through June , and we kept going right through , right until the middle of October , and they normally stop round the end of August , so that 's the main reason ; a very long , hot summer . |
| 8 | Again , many scholars see the sole reason for Matthew placing Jesus in Egypt as that he is then able to show Jesus as the fulfilment of another Old Testament statement found in the book of the prophet Hosea : I called my son out of Egypt ( Hosea 11:1 ) . |