Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create . |
| 2 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 3 | Occasionally a married man , particularly if his sexual capacity is for some reason declining , may find pornography more attractive than the " real thing " . |
| 4 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 5 | This may involve a narrowing of consciousness , a division of awareness into a more- and a less-focal area , a widening of consciousness until it has no especial object , or a flickering of consciousness when steady attending is for some reason precluded . |
| 6 | The Reserve Winner receives a purple and white ribbon and moves up to the Winners if the Winners Dog is for any reason disqualified . |
| 7 | As we have noted in Lecture l , the ‘ no government ’ economy is a purely hypothetical construct , and several writers ( e.g. , Prest , 1968 ) have argued that the global comparison is for this reason of little interest . |
| 8 | And developments which did not contribute to , nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective . |
| 9 | Elgar 's recording of his Falstaff with the LSO was for some reason in a separate release category . |
| 10 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |
| 11 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 12 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |