Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] for [adj] reason " in BNC.

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1 Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another .
2 Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason .
3 CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason .
4 Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones .
5 Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other .
6 This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned .
7 Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason .
8 If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval .
9 Typically , this will be a realistic option if your pay has been cut for some reason .
10 There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ .
11 You will see that several large pads have been trimmed for this reason on our working example layout for the UV Exposure Timer .
12 I am left with no alternative but to seek legal advice on this matter which I believe has been taken for one reason and one reason only — that is to discourage the importation of fish to secure employment in the Grampian area . ’
13 The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek .
14 It was true that men had been killed for less reason .
15 Parents and professionals will welcome the amendment to the 1981 Education Act which comes into force at once , to the effect that parents have the right of appeal where statements have been rewritten for any reason and must be informed in writing of this right .
16 The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason .
17 One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason .
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