Example sentences of "reason is that the " in BNC.

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1 A second reason is that the D-mark is already overvalued , not undervalued , against most other member currencies in terms of its purchasing-power parity .
2 The minor reason is that the Tories at the moment sound — because they are — intellectually incoherent .
3 For Swift , the reason is that the marriage is based on an idealization of the woman .
4 But the other reason is that the price of foreign exchange can be raised only if the supply of domestic currency is reduced in relation to the available supply of foreign exchange .
5 The most frequent reason is that the chairperson gets too involved in the task and does n't do enough to manage the process .
6 The likely reason is that the mother becomes immunised to the foreign antigens only by fetal bleeding across the placenta at or near the time of birth .
7 The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised .
8 But the major reason is that the large increase in the number of heavy goods vehicles was not foreseen when the motorways were designed .
9 Another reason is that the US will simply need more of the world 's more unusual metals if it wants to meet its targets of producing more military equipment .
10 The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal .
11 The first and most obvious reason is that the public differences between the major parties have indeed got less : there seems little point in attacking on areas of large agreement .
12 Perhaps another reason is that the book may be seen as another step in the loss of accounting 's innocence .
13 The underlying reason is that the careful ordering of this woman 's life finally choked her , and the survival instinct compelled her to break out before she suffocated completely .
14 The reason is that the Mentawi islands have been isolated from Sumatra for between 50,000 and one million years .
15 The reason is that the arbitration system to a large degree adjusts wages in line with the cost of living thereby reducing the ‘ threat ’ effect which rising prices would otherwise pose to workers ' living standards .
16 The reason is that the treaty sets criteria to measure whether a country is ready for economic and monetary union .
17 The general reason is that the book aims to show why a philosophical question about Explaining and Understanding matters for theories of international relations .
18 The reason is that the opportunities for disabled drivers to test specially-adapted vehicles are limited .
19 One reason is that the distinction we have made between productive and consumption property is not always maintained , or it is applied in differing ways .
20 The most obvious reason is that the author only arrived on the scene at the end of the process , and has had to reconstruct the design and development phases from inevitably superficial interviews .
21 The other reason is that the demands of what you advertise and for whom also changes — you do n't often find people in advertising complaining of boredom .
22 The reason is that the observables unc and s do not commute with each other and it is therefore impossible to have states in which they both take assigned values , like both being " up " , or one " up " and one " down " , as the second statement would imply if it were correct .
23 ‘ There 's no room for growth in the traditional sectors and the main reason is that the demography is against us .
24 One important reason is that the number of possible distinct uses of topless seems to be , in principle , open ; so any attempt to draw up a determinate closed list would be of questionable validity .
25 From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army .
26 The first reason is that the apparent consent or refusal was given as a result of undue influence .
27 The reason is that the addition of records to direct access files is mathematically similar to the random addition of records to overflow areas .
28 A second reason is that the market for corporate control is thought to be an important disciplining device particularly in those circumstances where competition in product markets is absent .
29 According to Rhodes ( 1988 , p. 130 ) one main reason is that the Thatcher government has developed quangos as a convenient vehicle for bypassing what it perceived ( particularly in urban areas ) as a hostile and recalcitrant local government system .
30 The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again .
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