Example sentences of "for [adj] [be] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest .
2 Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions .
3 Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year .
4 The reason for that is that we do all our selling on the phone .
5 And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment .
6 The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks .
7 ‘ I think the reason for that is that we spend about 45 minutes hitting balls on the range and 10 minutes putting before we tee off .
8 The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint .
9 he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather
10 The humiliation for some is that they can not talk to their English-speaking grandchildren .
11 Above all , very few of them meet more than one of the criteria used in the inner-city for measuring network strength , and the essential reason for this is that their network ties are not mainly territorial .
12 The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors .
13 Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical .
14 The only reason I can suggest for this is that they may have ‘ member get member fatigue ’ ; ie it has been used very often in the past and now sees diminishing returns .
15 You are probably aware that the Marauders hold the most physical area sales meetings in the UK , if not on Planet Earth : the reason for this is that they are then able to carry out the most professional and demanding surveys to get the sale .
16 The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted .
17 The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind .
18 One of the reasons for this is that there are six cats living in this house .
19 Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance .
20 One reason for this is that it is easier to measure , and therefore control , performance if management can observe precisely what workers are doing .
21 One argument advanced for this is that it makes no sense to include mortality data in a formula for resource allocation as dead people make no use of health services .
22 On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable .
23 The principal justification offered for this is that it triggers discussion between the police and organisers , and prevents demonstrators from springing surprises on the police .
24 The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy .
25 An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers .
26 The reason for this is that it permits buyers to set aside a bad bargain following the seller 's breach of condition where only slight consequences have ensued .
27 However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable .
28 The penalty one pays for this is that you never really get to learn and understand the basics behind simple design .
29 The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well .
30 One reason for this is that our metabolic rate slows down as we age .
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