Example sentences of "reason why the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also interesting to note that the issue of land inheritance was a key reason why the Irish population voted ‘ no ’ in the referendum on divorce in 1986 . |
| 2 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 3 | When Jenson continues that the reason why the biblical God is called ‘ Father ’ is that the attempt is being made to get away from sexuality , with which women are more naturally to be associated , we may think that he has given the game away ! |
| 4 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 5 | In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty . |
| 6 | His main argument is that , without the guarantee of admissibility , there is no obvious reason why the first answer should not be amongst the least probable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is no reason why the simple milk diet ( whether natural or otherwise ) of the normal baby should cause tummy ache . |
| 9 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 10 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 11 | The reason why the present government nevertheless eventually sanctioned this book is that it mainly covers the war years , when the secret services were inevitably more widely tolerated than at other times . |
| 12 | There is no reason why the present tense can not be used . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'll tell ye , ’ Alec Reid summoned Bubble and Squeak for another drink , ‘ that 's a guid reason why the young kid Aleena will never wed before she 's nineteen . |
| 14 | The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 15 | There seems little reason why Windows NT should fare much better : there is no unarguable reason why the average MS-DOS user that has Windows 3.0 but does n't actually use it much , should decide to upgrade to Windows NT any time soon . |
| 16 | Evidence of popular agrarian-nationalism is one reason why the rural community was later identified as being a major support of ultranationalism and aggression . |
| 17 | ‘ This is the main reason why the mercantile legislation in Ceylon is in its infancy and out of date … |
| 18 | If it was a product of the patient 's imagination , there would have to be a very significant reason why the subconscious mind should choose to create a particular series of events and personalities . |
| 19 | There was no reason why the ordinary law of contract should not apply to an agreement under s 54 as to any other agreement . |
| 20 | One reason why the modern reader has difficulty with a positive evaluation of the term ‘ national prejudices ’ is that , in the twentieth century , prejudice has taken on a substantive meaning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The district council , however , have not given any reason why the palpable hardship in the present case has not been alleviated by the grant of a consent in writing on terms which will safeguard the company 's business but will also protect the public ’ . |
| 23 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 24 | Jean-Claude Hirel , the head of the government 's electronics division , cites the lack of spending as one reason why the previous electronics plans went wrong . |
| 25 | There is no reason why the intermediate stage should not be eliminated or why a search that starts with alphabetical index terms can not be directly translated into records at appropriate class numbers . |
| 26 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 27 | The reason why the original bill was split into two Criminal Justice Acts is explained in Chapter 4 . |
| 28 | The sulphur effect , therefore , could be one reason why the northern hemisphere , which produces most of the world 's sulphur pollution , has not warmed despite the release of greenhouse gases . |
| 29 | There is good reason why the easier work should be thrown to the girls . |
| 30 | The environmental movement was too short-lived to ensure the rigid implementation of the 1970 Clean Air Act and this is one reason why the Clean Air Act was subsequently relaxed and weakened during the 1970s . |