Example sentences of "for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last 18 months of his father 's life , partly for professional reasons , Richard returned to England with his Canadian-born wife Shelley , a holistic health consultant , and cared for his father , weaning him off drugs through homoeopathic remedies , acupuncture and massage . |
| 2 | So whether your students are studying for exams or brushing up their English for professional reasons , this dictionary will deliver the answers — often before the question has even been asked ! |
| 3 | But for professional reasons , he had to know the exact cause of death . |
| 4 | He needed a wife for professional reasons and I was it . |
| 5 | Those Catholic students who are undertaking their initial teacher education , and who for professional reasons can not attend St Andrew 's College ( eg in Physical Education and Home Economics ) . |
| 6 | Making the reasonable assumption that Sue wanted , for professional reasons , to be " identified with " her clients , we have here evidence that she did adjust her linguistic behaviour in such a way as to bring it closer to that of a group with which , at the time in question , she wished to be identified . |
| 7 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 8 | Amnesty International has received information about nearly 300 Ugandan nationals currently detained for political reasons in Rwanda . |
| 9 | At the end of last year , again largely for political reasons , the Pakistan government granted licences to importers to bring in tea . |
| 10 | It wo n't work for political reasons — it 's one con-trick too far . ’ |
| 11 | Though he was clearly the more liberal half of the Aczel-Pozsgay tandem , he lost his job because of personal differences with his boss and not , as he claimed , for political reasons . |
| 12 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 13 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 14 | ‘ That means that for economic as well as for political reasons , we need to make certain that our power to influence Europe 's future is as great as can be , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The 1983 and 1987 general elections were interesting for psephological as well as for political reasons . |
| 16 | The figures had been changed for political reasons . |
| 17 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 18 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 19 | The health service has its fair share of people who want a quiet life and perhaps more than its fair share of Authority members who , for political reasons , opposed the policy itself . |
| 20 | She went there when her romance with the young king was quashed for political reasons . |
| 21 | The three great defectors , Nureyev ( 1961 ) , Makarova ( 1970 ) and Baryshnikov ( 1974 ) came West not for political reasons as such but because Russian dance was in a straitjacket . |
| 22 | We had met in South Africa ( where he had been born ) , had left for political reasons , and had decided to make our home in Edinburgh . |
| 23 | For political reasons the ecu must be developed ’ , and the Financial Times wrote of ‘ Bonn 's disparagement of the European Currency Unit as the putative single currency ’ . |
| 24 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 25 | Did any of these would-be overseas students wish to leave for political reasons ? |
| 26 | The title of Chapter 3 , ‘ The politics of variation ’ , was intended to underscore the central point about sex difference research : that it is always undertaken for political reasons , and has traditionally been used to justify sex discrimination and exclusionary practices , making them seem natural and inevitable . |
| 27 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 28 | Members of the American Indian Movement ( AIM ) have been apparently falsely and selectively prosecuted by the FBI for political reasons . |
| 29 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 30 | an aversion to maintaining newspapers for political reasons only . |