Example sentences of "reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though critics may not be as learned as their art-historical colleagues , there is no good reason for their practised eyes to cloud over when looking at art of other periods . |
| 2 | Part of the reason for this is that the American professoriat is the largest in the world , while the American market for current art is unprecedented ; it is evident that the turnover of the American art market as a whole is the largest in the world . |
| 3 | The alternative , of choosing between artists , is also hazardous , since it refutes the idea that they have a reason for exhibiting together , even if what the critic writes is favourable . |
| 4 | And was that your reason for becoming an actor ? |
| 5 | It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics . |
| 6 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 7 | The second likely reason for the deliberate use of church teaching in formulating parts of the constitution is implicit in the presence of the papal-oriented articles of the constitution themselves . |
| 8 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ? |
| 10 | ‘ Choose to think that would be a reason for sending old Jack into the next world if you like , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Unless you have a good reason for standing over there I should come out and get some fresh air . |
| 12 | ‘ You all had good reason for wanting Henry Phipps dead . ’ |
| 13 | She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’ |
| 14 | In the bustle of everything , none of us noticed her do it — there was no reason for us to . |
| 15 | ‘ There were a lot of problems with the welfare state , ’ I said , ‘ but that was no reason for trying to do away with it . ’ |
| 16 | The only reason for an incipient or full spin changing direction is if the stick is held right back so that the glider is either kept stalled , or is re-stalled as the rotation stops . |
| 17 | This is another reason for standardising the rudder movement first , but it is not relevant to gliders with T-tails where no rudder blanketing can occur . |
| 18 | Failure to do this is the only reason for a reversal of the spin from one direction to another . |
| 19 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 20 | Seeing her had become part of her life , first pleasant , then ecstatic , then the whole reason for being . |
| 21 | Aware of the distances we had covered , aware too of the reason for our travels — this book and our interest in his deeper self — though far from eager , indeed , ‘ alarmed ’ by it , he nevertheless agreed to meet — a moment of dual appraisal . |
| 22 | And we may see another reason for the ambiguity in Leonard : Ashkenazi Jews expressed themselves in Yiddish , which was not merely their language ( resting on 16th-century Middle High German and many Slavic loan-words ) but in a particular sense a reflection of their world , their universe . |
| 23 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 24 | The reason for this is straightforward . |
| 25 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 26 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 27 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 28 | I will give just one reason for this . |
| 29 | A third reason for the accelerating rate of advance in neuroscience is that there are simply larger numbers of better funded people engaged in research in this field today than ever before . |
| 30 | The reason for this is very simple — you ca n't see it . |