Example sentences of "[art] reason a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the oil companies operating in the UK disputed the British Gas view of the future suggesting that abundant reserves exist in the southern part of the North Sea and maintained that the reason a shortfall was in prospect was British Gas 's disinclination to pay suppliers the same price for UK produced gas as for imported gas . |
| 2 | If the principle on which morality is based is referred to as ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ ( Kant ) , then that would be a way of explaining the reason a man might have for acting morally . |
| 3 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 4 | I think the reason a lot of guitarists go out and buy traditional Fender or Gibson-like designs has nothing to do with single coil versus humbuckers , vintage trem systems or control layout ; they simply hope that some of their guitar hero 's ‘ mojo magic ’ will rub off on them ! |
| 5 | The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 7 | The police sought to enter , giving as the reason a wish to make sure that the feared victim was safe and unhurt . |
| 8 | The reason a bat is a particularly telling example for a philosopher , however , is that the experiences of an echolocating bat are assumed to be peculiarly alien and different from our own . |
| 9 | However , giving as a reason a greater degree of compatibility with the LDP 's conservative line on defence and foreign policy a Komeito spokesperson , Akira Kuroyanagi , told foreign journalists in late November 1989 that it would " make sense " for his party to start supporting the LDP on a " case by case " basis . |