Example sentences of "[adv] a reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 2 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 3 | If the by-election results were repeated throughout the district , the number of Labour councillors on Wear Valley Council would be reduced from eight to four with the Liberals increasing from 28 to 32 scarcely a reason for rejoicing in the Labour ranks . |
| 4 | My own view is that these exceptions are so infrequent that they are not a reason for abandoning the neo-Darwinist mechanism as the one which underlies the vast majority of adaptive evolutionary changes . |
| 5 | For an office worker in the UK this is not a reason for complacency , but a source of opportunity . |
| 6 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 7 | THE property market will continue to be depressed through 1993 , although this is not a reason for you to become depressed . |
| 8 | The fact that evidence does not support the prosecution 's case is clearly not a reason for regarding it as irrelevant ; and it is difficult to see how any recording of part of the actual event in issue could ever be so regarded . |
| 9 | It is not a reason for giving to the word ‘ appropriate ’ a meaning narrower than it would naturally bear . |
| 10 | But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice . |
| 11 | One danger in giving such an opportunity might be that it would give greater scope for industrial policy ( ‘ European champions ’ ) proponents , not least within the European Commission : however , that is not a reason for preventing DGIV from considering the point in a particular case , however sceptically . |
| 12 | However , this in itself is not a reason for abandoning the term rape . |
| 13 | The IOC Medical Commission was aware of this , and , for this reason , the presence of a Y chromosome was not a reason for exclusion ; a complete physical examination was done before any decision about eligibility . |
| 14 | According to the Guidance : " The temporary nature of the interim order should be allowed for in the exercise of these responsibilities , but it is not a reason for not taking them seriously . " |
| 15 | There 's a usually a reason for their policy is n't there ? |
| 16 | There is always a reason for each batch of redundancies — it is done in the name of greater efficiency or due to changing economic conditions or is blamed on world recession . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's always a reason for legends , ’ Carrie said . |
| 18 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |
| 19 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 20 | It 's also a reason for the public confusion about who does what . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , as even the impecunious Liberal Democrats have now acknowledged , that 's also a reason for taking the whole business of advertising seriously . |
| 22 | Erm I 've obviously though about it quite a lot and I ca n't figure out a reason for it . |
| 23 | In the electronics industry that Wild and Hill studied particularly , female turnover rates showed a high relationship with job satisfaction/dissatisfaction : many women , like many men , express a need for personally satisfying work and the failure to find it is often a reason for changing one 's job . |
| 24 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 25 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |