Example sentences of "the reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | To begin with , the reasons for which artists show together are varied . |
| 3 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Otherwise , re-brief or think over all the aspects of misjudgements on slopes and the reasons for needing extra speed . |
| 7 | Our people will never come out unless they understand the reasons for all this stir . |
| 8 | The report also gives details of the reasons for refusals . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The report looks at the reasons for having a complaints procedure and discusses the principles of good practice for complaints and appeals procedures . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It is as if her costumes were the reasons for her being there . |
| 17 | The reasons for the split are understandable . |
| 18 | I wrote back asking the reasons for this , pointing out that , if any large modern power station deserved to be listed , it was Bankside . |
| 19 | The company and its solicitors , Jeffrey Green Russell , could not elaborate on the reasons for the action against Mr Swales as they said the matter was sub judice . |
| 20 | He did not apparently find it necessary to explain the reasons for this sexist-sounding conclusion . |
| 21 | Check whether any of the reasons for not paying SSP apply on the first day of the PIW . |
| 22 | The reasons for the centre 's heed fur taxes like the prodnalog and many others had not been made clear to the villagers by the party cell . |
| 23 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 24 | The reasons for this are obvious . |
| 25 | The reasons for this relative success certainly run deeper than Leopold Senghor 's personality . |
| 26 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |
| 27 | The reasons for this include both the design of the projects — ranging from the crops selected to the land to which people have moved — and the quality of their management . |
| 28 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 29 | We wanted to do a research project on the reasons for the low take-up of Health Clinics and Health Services by Asian women . |
| 30 | But they are not interested in the reasons for it , in the sort of alienation which Asian women feel at these groups . |