Example sentences of "was for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 2 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 3 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 4 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 5 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 6 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 7 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 8 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |
| 9 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 10 | It was for that reason that I never showed him my poem ‘ To Thomas Hardy in 1940 ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It was for personal reasons . ’ |
| 12 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 13 | erm it 's very interesting that in the Old Testament there 's no legislation about homelessness at all , which indicates it was n't a problem , and I suspect that this was for two reasons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 16 | It was for such reason that most of Petipa 's famous pas de deux take place centre stage , whilst those of Ashton and MacMillan cover the whole area as befits their more flowing lyrical styles , |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 19 | It was for this reason that Swangrove came about . |
| 20 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
| 21 | It was for this reason that he concluded that different cells receive different genes . |
| 22 | I am unaware of any biography in print , and it was for this reason that I wrote this brief account of the life of a truly great man of God . |
| 23 | It was for this reason that many of them carefully locked their front doors when they left their homes . |
| 24 | It was for this reason that the BBC 's dispersal of a large part of its library holdings was so poignant . |
| 25 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 26 | It was for this reason that she called herself ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 27 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 29 | It was for this reason that Rendcomb aerodrome , nestled in the Cotswolds , came into being in 1916 . |
| 30 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |