Example sentences of "reason be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The definition of camp is as elusive as the sensibility itself , one reason being simply that there are different kinds of camp . |
| 2 | The reason is largely that younger researchers are unwilling or unable to embark on a career in this kind of research . |
| 3 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 4 | The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s ! |
| 5 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 6 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 7 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 8 | When demand outstrips supply by the widest margin , the reason is usually that the original seller is trying to rig the market — as at the FA Cup final , or Wimbledon . |
| 9 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 10 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 11 | A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste . |
| 12 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 13 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 14 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 15 | The second reason was precisely that a single Carolingian world still existed , and men of the high nobility moved within it . |
| 16 | So the reason was always that people really needed the money rather than they just wanted to work ? |