Example sentences of "reason for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The time limit for making claims is three months ( or twelve months if there is good reason for the delay ) . |
| 8 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 9 | Indeed the telegraph was the sole reason for the existence of this huddle of buildings named after the wife of the cable station 's chief engineer . |
| 10 | The attempt to remedy this deficiency and achieve a true professionalism may be one reason for the rapid growth of literary theory in the anglophone academy . |
| 11 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |
| 12 | It is clear that a roaring trade in cars ( not included in retail sales ) was part of the reason for the £2bn current account deficit that month . |
| 13 | The advent of 1992 was explicitly given as one reason for the Japanese company being interested in the deal . |
| 14 | The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks . |
| 15 | This term , though , there is a special reason for the archetypal tight-head cornerstone of the Pontypool pack to prop on — the All Blacks . |
| 16 | One reason for the sale is that when WH Smith bought the Canadian Classic bookshops chain in 1985 , doubling its outlets , it made an agreement with the Canadian government to reduce its holding in WH Smith Canada to 51 per cent by 1990 . |
| 17 | The reason for the increased confidence behind the mud-loving Carroll House was the overnight deluge that had softened the ground . |
| 18 | The first reason for the meeting is that it is 21 years ago since the last title was won . |
| 19 | This Japanese success brings another reason for the Eurodisney issue to go well . |
| 20 | Another reason for the more restricted use of these sorts of typification is that the situations in which they become operative are infrequent , such as the typifications ‘ old biddies ’ or ‘ old dolls ’ for pensioners who make petty complaints , ‘ Easton funny ’ for strange and odd events , and ‘ loopers ’ for odd and strange people . |
| 21 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 22 | He came to be regarded as the major reason for the government 's post-Falklands electoral strength , its reputation for competence , enterprise , and success . |
| 23 | The reason for the failures of the British economy led to a wide variety of diagnoses by economists , sociologists , and other soothsayers . |
| 24 | And gradually he came to realize that there was a particular reason for the attraction which was not the empathy of the girl . |
| 25 | This is the reason for the committed marketing budget . |
| 26 | We were n't also having to create the idea and the reason for the band 's existence . |
| 27 | Guambia 's historical claim on the island has become more significant since oil was discovered , and the main reason for the invasion is economic . |
| 28 | As this description of the reason for the decay of the stonework suggests , the original roof surfaces also presented increasing problems and complete replacement of the roof slating was necessary . |
| 29 | British inflation will be down ( an odd condition , since one reason for the system is to help reduce inflation ) . |
| 30 | However , as a major reason for the merger must be to improve the C&G 's capital position , it is curious for it to give away quite so much money . |