Example sentences of "reason for using " in BNC.

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1 The main reason for using alloys is to modify the mechanical and physical properties of metals to suit the item being manufactured .
2 One reason for using a Deferred Payment Credit is to avoid stamp duty in certain countries .
3 There was therefore good reason for using related but innocuous species and accepting the chance of missing key properties which made the virulent organisms dangerous .
4 I do not see any reason for using anything special , so I choose to bait with two items , bread and worms .
5 It is bad when the inevitable exclusiveness of vernacular becomes the reason for using it .
6 ‘ There is no particular reason for using it — many other things would do as well ’ , he commented .
7 The main reason for using a Statutory Demand is not to drive your debtor into insolvency , which helps no one , but rather to bring pressure to bear on having accounts paid and having them paid quickly .
8 The reason for using cold water is that hot water will make the blood congeal and make it harder to get out of the needle and syringe .
9 But if you really want to rub a Mac user up the wrong way , hit them will the argument that now Quark is available for the PC , the only real reason for using a Mac has disappeared .
10 Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom .
11 The lack of a gold standard for health service need was a reason for using standardised mortality ratio in the RAWP formula .
12 that might be one good reason for using the er the soaks .
13 That 's it , that 's the reason for using it .
14 To make this last step possible is one reason for using words of the same class .
15 It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry .
16 The theoretical reason for using Jamaican as a reference point is that , as I shall argue in Chapter 4 , the main Creole influence on " London Jamaican " ( henceforth LJ ) really is Jamaican ; the comparison is therefore the appropriate one to make .
17 A and again , but why did you shout armed police , was there any particular reason for using those ?
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