Example sentences of "the reason [is] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The reason is that they are laconically worded , and deal with problems other than the relation between legacies and trusts .
2 Perhaps the reason is that they are dedicated to something outside themselves , namely to God , and are not interested merely in the selfish development of their right hemispheres .
3 So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible .
4 The reason is that they have different functions , which impose different constraints on their nature .
5 The reason is that they are the people most able to afford the necessary tools and equipment .
6 The reason is that they deny the significance of speculative balances and argue that overwhelmingly money is held as a medium of exchange .
7 The reason is that we have driven the 500SL , which in its most basic form , is actually fractionally cheaper than the fully loaded 300SL-24 .
8 The reason is that we have accumulated such a burden of public and private debt that there is no confidence in our economy .
9 The reason is that we want to deal with the Keynesian model in greater detail and derive policy implications from it .
10 Part of the reason is that their earnings are dissipated by prices kept high by import controls .
11 The reason is that what was a favouring upward step in economic life has now become a hopeless enthralment .
12 The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion .
13 Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others .
14 The reason is that there is nothing to put in — so please , if you have some news , or know something interesting about a member ( that can be published without attracting litigation ) let the editor know .
15 The reason is that there is no clear border line between what should and what should not count as money .
16 Em , but that 's the reason is that there 's , there 's a shortfall of the government funding of one point eight five six on that rollover funding which we think it would be unfair to ask this committee to find out of you know cuts in other areas within our , within our budget and that 's the reason for the recommendation .
17 The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society .
18 How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm
19 The reason is that it has muscles which work to resist gravity and other physical forces bearing upon the whole body .
20 The reason is that I , I 've got them all , yeah .
21 The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is .
22 The reason is because they have agreed to be bound by it .
23 If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail .
24 One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building .
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