Example sentences of "[adj] reason be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The second reason was precisely that a single Carolingian world still existed , and men of the high nobility moved within it . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste . |
| 7 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The definition of camp is as elusive as the sensibility itself , one reason being simply that there are different kinds of camp . |
| 10 | 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 . |