Example sentences of "one reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will give just one reason for this . |
| 2 | One reason for this , rather than the use of binary data , is that it allows the file to be sent via communications channels coded for 7-bit plus parity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One reason for insisting on this possibility is to prevent us from being too complacent and self-congratulating about what we are engaged in , here and now . |
| 6 | The advent of 1992 was explicitly given as one reason for the Japanese company being interested in the deal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One reason for this increase in interest on the part of Marx is the wealth of new publications and theories which followed the assimilation by anthropologists of Darwin 's discoveries . |
| 9 | Maybe this is one reason for depression , then : that the book 's well-wrought arguments will not exercise those whose ideology it dissects . |
| 10 | British inflation will be down ( an odd condition , since one reason for the system is to help reduce inflation ) . |
| 11 | Although the using up of old stock may be one reason for this practice , watchcase-makers were probably also reluctant to use Britannia silver because it is a softer alloy than sterling . |
| 12 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 13 | One reason for this may be the doctrine of corporate liability in English criminal law ( discussed in Chapter 4.3 , and found to be unsatisfactory ) ; in particular , it may be difficult to establish the fault necessary for manslaughter , although easier to secure a conviction under legislation on railways or merchant shipping . |
| 14 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 15 | One reason for this may have lain in the unwillingness of biologists to accept the highly abstract nature of his theory . |
| 16 | One reason for being hopeful is that we now make machines which do some of the things that brains do , although we must remember that there may be important ways in which brains and existing computers work on different principles . |
| 17 | One reason for visiting Ingolstadt is its several claims to religious fame , or notoriety . |
| 18 | One reason for this , they argue , is that it is a ‘ responsibility ’ for the Government to see its majority reduced by one vote with the appointment of the Speaker . |
| 19 | One reason for using a Deferred Payment Credit is to avoid stamp duty in certain countries . |
| 20 | One reason for this was that its officers were not bound by past conventions or the class structure that so dominated MI6 . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the Leeds researchers found that the effect of repeated court adjournments on the family , not least the inconvenience , was one reason for the system 's success . |
| 22 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 23 | Nothing here said denies that one reason for holding voluntary undertakings to be binding is to enable people to encourage reliance by committing themselves to a course of action . |
| 24 | One reason for the later age at marriage is the growing popularity of premarital cohabitation . |
| 25 | This may be one reason for the relative generosity of earlier community help . |
| 26 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |
| 27 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 28 | One reason for closure can be a sudden , unexpected bill for repairs . |
| 29 | One reason for this , I would suggest , is that Brief Encounter is not simply the tearful tale of heterosexual romance that it appears to be : beneath , or alongside , or overlapping this narrative is another , quite specifically related to the homosexuality of its author . |
| 30 | This means that higher wind speeds must be sought — one reason for the choice of coastal and offshore sites . |