Example sentences of "[adj] reason for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is a very sound reason for this provision . |
| 2 | There was no justifiable reason for differential treatment of the part-time employees concerning the increase in salary and reduction in work hours . |
| 3 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 4 | The chief reason for this visit happening at all is that the Soviet Union wants it to ; Soviet Foreign Minister , Edouard Sheverdnaze was in North Korea , putting pressure on his fellow Communists to reform ; the Soviets are fed up with subsidizing them and anyhow , want economic help from the capitalists in South Korea . |
| 5 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 6 | We all know the real reason for Labour Group 's rejection of Employment Action . |
| 7 | The county authority claimed that this was the real reason for local hostility to the headmistress . |
| 8 | Does not the Minister understand that the simple reason for inward investment in Britain has nothing to do with the Government 's activities ? |
| 9 | However , the results did not suggest any paramount reason for this shift . |
| 10 | Not all of the sheets had been accompanied by an explanatory memoir however , the principal reason for this omission being lack of time . |
| 11 | A principal reason for this interest is the failure of rule-based linguistics to produce a general purpose , intelligent language processor capable of adequately performing a number of rather basic linguistic tasks ( e.g. taking down unrestricted text , non-robotic reading aloud , making a precis of a text ) ( Sharman , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 13 | The most likely reason for continued propagation of the 1989 fissure , although in a slightly different direction beyond the postulated boundary , is gravitational slope failure on the western wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 14 | The more likely reason for this move is a ‘ tit for tat ’ reaction . |
| 15 | The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes . |
| 16 | The basic reason for this change is that the scale of government activity is so vast that , more and more , ministers have to delegate to their civil servants . |
| 17 | The basic reason for this trend is that in general very much more money is awarded in the US courts than anywhere else ; also the courts there tend to favour the individual against the big organisation . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no intrinsic reason for another reorganisation so soon after the last , and there is certainly no popular demand for it . |
| 19 | the House of Lords was a prime domestic reason for Unionist acceptance of coalition . |
| 20 | The prime reason for this inequality is the geographical distribution of economic power . |
| 21 | The prime reason for this non-appearance is that , in English at least , many words can sound the same but have meanings dependant on the context that they appear in . |
| 22 | My contention is that the prime reason for this situation — in the publicly available data domain — is the failure of librarians and information scientists to get a proper grip on the overall problem and to take effective measures to solve it . |
| 23 | A prime reason for this neglect has been the impact of the theories of Piaget mediated in this country through Goldman in the 1960s . |
| 24 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 25 | One good reason for such priorities is that waste usually poses a smaller threat to health than air or water pollution . |
| 26 | Certainly there was good reason for erstwhile Tories to protest in 1974 , but the scale of the Liberal revival suggests that something more fundamental was involved . |
| 27 | Now that you understand why these lace carriage movements occur you should be able to operate the carriage happily , knowing that although it may look unorthodox , there is a good reason for each instruction . |
| 28 | There is a good reason for this difficulty . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope there 's a good reason for this noise ! |
| 30 | The original observation that an extract containing prostaglandins lowered blood pressure was a good reason for further investigation , but did not mean that it would lead to an agent for treating high blood pressure . |