Example sentences of "[adj] reason i " in BNC.

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1 For this reason I always emphasise that if , as you complete the final turn , you are happy that you have got the field ‘ made ’ , you should always open full airbrake for a few moments to check that you would undershoot with that setting .
2 For this reason I am not averse from seeing a sharpening of sentencing policy within the present law .
3 For this reason I will not concentrate upon analysing or categorising lists of attributes .
4 For this reason I have made a suggestion for eating on each journey .
5 A tranquil mood had come over me , and for this reason I believe I was again motoring very slowly — probably at no more than fifteen miles per hour .
6 For this reason I was apprehensive about the approach to The Grey Corries , a fine ridge-walk to the south of Spean Bridge .
7 For this reason I made a cassette of the particular imagery I used and asked Maxine to practise using it ( in combination with the relaxation technique ) for a week before coming to see me again .
8 For this reason I have to say we have not been too happy with-her work on joint projects .
9 For this reason I believed that Dr Mumby should always have had full resuscitative equipment readily at hand .
10 I am ashamed of it myself , and for this reason I stoop to beg your pardon .
11 I was not good at ball games , and maybe for this reason I did n't care much for sport or physical activities .
12 My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway .
13 For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once .
14 It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me .
15 And for this reason I should move up to the company 's Gold Card program .
16 For this reason I am deeply committed to the cause of raising our profile , and you will all be aware of the initiatives that are under way to promote us in a wider role .
17 Socialists had of course always argued that there was something fundamentally wrong with capitalist progress ( and for this reason I shall concentrate on their attitudes ) .
18 Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things .
19 Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed .
20 For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything .
21 Apart from liking London bands such as the Stones and the Kinks , for some reason I always had a working knowledge of the Small Faces .
22 ( For some reason I found myself in Charlbury last week — about 15 miles from where I thought I was , and ought to have been ! )
23 ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter .
24 So I was down there watching The Yardbirds and the English bands that were starting , and one time there was this band — for some reason I was there early and watching the sound check — with this blond guy who had very long blond hair , and knee-length sort of sued , fringed , Sherwood Forest , Robin Hood-looking boots , playing a bit of sax on stage .
25 I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room .
26 But for some reason I can not remember , it was impossible to get permission to ship the motor bike .
27 Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her .
28 After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment .
29 My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less .
30 The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period .
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