Example sentences of "reason [prep] [verb] [det] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although much of the argument before him and much of his judgment were devoted to the legal rights of a 16-year-old , the only reason for exploring this was that W. was resisting a change of regime . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 3 | Right now that that the rea other reason for qualifying that is the list may be six to nine months old . |
| 4 | Our reason for doing that is stated in the amendment : there are still a large number of unanswered questions . |
| 5 | A particular reason for liking this was the absence of interest charges , but it also has the obvious attraction of flexibility — there 's no need to pay an instalment if money is short that week . |