Example sentences of "reason for such " in BNC.
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| 1 | On asking the reason for such an assembly , Yakovlev was told that the local priest had refused to marry any couples unless the community attended services . |
| 2 | The reason for such an uncompromising policy is made plain : ‘ … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods , and so to sin against the Lord your God ’ ( 20.18 ; see7.4 ) . |
| 3 | As Carolyn Douglas of Exploring Parenthood explains , there is a reason for such friendships . |
| 4 | The reason for such anomalies may be because flavonoids are also potent lipoxygenase products such as the leukotrienes are powerful inflammatory agents . |
| 5 | The reason for such a long flue , which is not uncommon , is that vapours given off during smelting of lead polluted the surrounding landscape , whereas long flues allowed the fumes to settle harmlessly . |
| 6 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 7 | The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes . |
| 8 | The successful candidates will probably be given a very expensive training , and it is fear of wasting money on training unsuitable applicants which is the reason for such a prolonged exercise . |
| 9 | A second reason for such high reported levels of satisfaction may be that respondents are answering the question in terms of their level of expectations . |
| 10 | There was , however , no mistaking the reason for such a communication . |
| 11 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 12 | The reason for such nonchalance is that the snakes seldom bite people and , even if they do , rarely inject much venom . |
| 13 | The reason for such concern can be found in the 1947 Royal Commission Report ; it asked ‘ whether such concentration as exists is on balance disadvantageous to the free expression of opinion or the accurate presentation of news ’ . |
| 14 | There is some reason for such an approach since agreements between management and labour were reached within a framework of national collective bargaining . |
| 15 | One good reason for such priorities is that waste usually poses a smaller threat to health than air or water pollution . |
| 16 | One reason for such differentiation was that some banks , e.g. the secondary banks , were and are much more dependent on foreign business , and such business is based on finer margins . |
| 17 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 18 | Part of the reason for such seemingly irrational behaviour is the suspicion among many managers that incentives rise as governments try to offset inherent economic disadvantages or protect restrictive domestic policies . |
| 19 | Another reason for such sharp changes of alignment in otherwise straight enclosure roads is parish boundaries . |
| 20 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I see no reason for such a surprising change . |
| 22 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 23 | The reason for such severe indigestion was a deplorable rag called ‘ Going Down , Staying Up , Going Down ’ . |
| 24 | Caring for elderly relatives or an ailing husband is a common reason for such withdrawal ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Someone asked the reason for such haste . |
| 26 | The most likely reason for such sudden removal of woodland vegetation being clearance prior to agricultural cultivation . |
| 27 | The reason for such speculation comes from the need for a mechanism of generating BIFs at a time in the history of the Earth when the atmosphere may have contained only minute amounts of free oxygen . |
| 28 | The reason for such a late session , Ashenden explained , was simple : Eddie Stratton . |
| 29 | Scott J did not hint at the reason for such a conclusion , leaving one to speculate as to whether the continued liability of L1 derives from the fact that he is an original party to the lease and therefore subject to the continued liability imposed by the doctrine of privity of contract , or if the important fact is that it was L1 who granted the right of way ( to B ) the exercise of which amounted to a breach of covenant . |
| 30 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |