Example sentences of "the reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated . |
| 2 | For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’ |
| 3 | To begin with , the reasons for which artists show together are varied . |
| 4 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 5 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
| 6 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 7 | It is important for every student to understand the philosophy behind having a rigid drill and the reasons for precise actions such as checking and locking the airbrakes . |
| 8 | Otherwise , re-brief or think over all the aspects of misjudgements on slopes and the reasons for needing extra speed . |
| 9 | The reasons young people sniff glue vary with each individual . |
| 10 | Our people will never come out unless they understand the reasons for all this stir . |
| 11 | This is one of the reasons why Chomsky ( 1959 ) was able to launch such a devastating attack on radical behaviourism . |
| 12 | The report also gives details of the reasons for refusals . |
| 13 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 14 | The report looks at the reasons for having a complaints procedure and discusses the principles of good practice for complaints and appeals procedures . |
| 15 | The reasons for waiting list length are complex , and may be as related to shortages of aftercare facilities and ancillary staff as to the availability of surgical facilities . |
| 16 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 17 | Research in this sense and teaching can be in conflict , for the reasons suggested by Hirsch . |
| 18 | This indeed is the burden of Pound 's own poem , ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which argues that the puzzle of a particular poem by Bernard de Born — a historian 's puzzle about the reasons for certain historically recorded vents — is to be solved only by realizing the strategic implications of the location of Born 's own fortress of Hautefort . |
| 19 | Yet he was to say that the entire enterprise of The Cantos was undertaken so as to uncover the reasons why war happens , so as to preclude its happening again . |
| 20 | Bunting , who respected Eliot , applied himself first to rebutting the reasons which Eliot gave , in his Introduction to Selected Poems ; for omitting this long and elaborate poem : |
| 21 | That 's one of the reasons why we want to play the best sides in Europe . ’ |
| 22 | Sir : If one wants to understand the reasons for growing public concern about the police one need look no further than the letter from the Police Federation ( 28 September ) . |
| 23 | The reasons were simple : ‘ The British people are opposed to the sell-offs because they are more socially-responsible , more community-minded , more far-sighted , more patriotic than the Government that governs them . |
| 24 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 25 | He was satisfied the reasons which the mother advanced against adoption were not ones a reasonable mother would advance in the circumstances and were not reasonable reasons and that a reasonable woman in her position would give her consent . |
| 26 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 27 | It is as if her costumes were the reasons for her being there . |
| 28 | We are anticipating a hard match , and that is one of the reasons why I am so pleased to have Bryan ( Robson ) back . |
| 29 | The reasons for the split are understandable . |
| 30 | Bringing home the exiles is a possible option ( James Whitaker , Bill Athey , Steven Rhodes ) but players of this class will not be lured back easily , for the reasons above . |