Example sentences of "be for [adj] reasons " 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 | Relative advantage over other existing products — the importance here is whether the potential consumers perceive advantage in the product , which can be for many reasons |
| 3 | This was the time that Farnborough was the place to be for many reasons . |
| 4 | This could be for many reasons : for example the database does not contain a good example of that particular form of letter , or the character may have been badly written . |
| 5 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 6 | This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , when you tack it should be for tactical reasons . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 12 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 13 | All of this is for economic reasons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is for two reasons : ( a ) state subsidies to farmers are harder to disguise than rigged prices , and therefore harder to keep increasing ; so even if the right reforms initially seem perverse — requiring EC governments to spend more on farmers — that will be only temporary . |
| 16 | Management development therefore moves centre stage , and this is for two reasons . |
| 17 | This is for two reasons . |
| 18 | This is for two reasons : first , these strategies largely ignore the political conditions of their implementation , and second , they fail to answer the question of whether such a ‘ regeneration ’ is possible and whether , if possible , it can take place under conditions which will be of benefit to socialist politics . |
| 19 | This is for two reasons ( which , by the way , are often wrongly conflated , including in some of these essays ) . |
| 20 | If the superpowers are still perceived as dominant , it is for other reasons . |
| 21 | ( 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 . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | But if the interest has returned , it is for different reasons this time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is for these reasons that levels one and two of partnership have been more prevalent than level three . |
| 28 | It is for these reasons that wage rates differ from one job to the next . |
| 29 | It is for these reasons that the Treaty of Rome provides : |
| 30 | It is for these reasons that many of the relationships between media content and public perceptions remain at the level of supposition and assertion . |