Example sentences of "[be] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |
| 2 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 3 | This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes . |
| 4 | In other words if there be a moral burden to protest it should be well aimed , and be for proper reasons , difficult though this may be to define . |
| 5 | However , when you tack it should be for tactical reasons . |
| 6 | ‘ If I kept a careful check on your movements — which I do n't — I can assure you it would not be for sentimental reasons . ’ |
| 7 | In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner . |
| 8 | All of this is for economic reasons . |
| 9 | It is for similar reasons that I have included the notes from a lecture by Dr. S.P. Dey — the feeling of certainty that LM potencies are an indispensable part of the homœopath 's armoury comes from the authority of his many years in practice . |
| 10 | If the superpowers are still perceived as dominant , it is for other reasons . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) Willett ( 1978 , p. 110 ) makes a distinction between two rather different uses of popular culture for high culture : the first is for political reasons , as in the case of the German avant-garde and particularly the Dada movement ; the second is for formal reasons , and it is found in surrealism and more generally in the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) Willett ( 1978 , p. 110 ) makes a distinction between two rather different uses of popular culture for high culture : the first is for political reasons , as in the case of the German avant-garde and particularly the Dada movement ; the second is for formal reasons , and it is found in surrealism and more generally in the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s . |
| 13 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 14 | But if the interest has returned , it is for different reasons this time . |
| 15 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 16 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 17 | Local scepticism maintains that , even if knowledge is possible elsewhere , it is for special reasons not available in this or that selected area . |
| 18 | ‘ It was for personal reasons . ’ |
| 19 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 20 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 21 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |