Example sentences of "for this is [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories .
2 The most obvious explanation for this is that during his years away from home , he would develop a large number of relatively weak ties : in such circumstances , the in-group alternant would cease to have any function for him and so could be abandoned .
3 The reason for this is that in the A monomer , the turn of the β -hairpin is stabilized by intermolecular crystal contacts , mainly through hydrophobic interactions involving Val87 and Ala89 .
4 One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge .
5 Broadly , the reason for this is that in smaller populations the selection of an extreme value for the sample would have a greater effect on the calculation of any value for that sample if the sample was also small as a ratio of the population .
6 A main reason for this is that by comparison its history is so brief .
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