Example sentences of "be [adj] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those who mourn , and for those who are sad for any reason . |
| 2 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 3 | No just , I , they 're scarce they 're scarce for some reason . |
| 4 | We are reluctant for this reason to allow a category of ‘ input strategies ’ . |
| 5 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 6 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 7 | On the one hand you 're giving them extra responsibility so yes the bigger might be bigger for that reason . |
| 8 | One reason is that the commercial transaction test seems to go too far ; many transactions which will be generally regarded as perfectly legitimate forms of investment , are entered into solely , or at least predominantly , for tax reasons , and I think it would be wrong to suggest that they might be taxable for that reason alone . |
| 9 | somebody wants wants to be late for some reason . |
| 10 | ( a ) a convertible loan stock does not fall within the definition of a " qualifying corporate bond " as mentioned above ( unless it is a deep gain security ) and may be attractive for that reason ; |
| 11 | Someone may now say : nevertheless , though checkerboard solutions may be desirable for that reason on some occasions , we do better to reject their use out of hand in advance , because we have reason to think that in the long run more discrete injustice will be created than avoided through these solutions . |
| 12 | A significant proportion of fringe land around London , for example , is derelict and many of the more attractive sites are inaccessible for one reason or another . |
| 13 | Some leave for work in the " private " sector but the majority are uninterested for one reason or another or leave to have children . |
| 14 | She records them , acknowledges them — unless I 'm being incommunicado for some reason — and replays them for me later . |
| 15 | In patients whose immune system is deficient for any reason ( after transplant surgery or anti-cancer therapy for example ) herpes virus can cause very serious infections which can occasionally prove fatal . |
| 16 | In cases where it is impractical for some reason to embed the header into the file , a special type of module , FOREIGN , is defined . |
| 17 | If it appears to the court that it is impracticable for any reason to serve a document in any manner prescribed by the rules , the court may , upon an affidavit showing grounds , make an order for substituted service ( N 217 ) giving leave for such steps to be taken as the court directs to bring the document to the notice of the person to be served ( Ord 7 , r 8(1) ) . |
| 18 | If you believe that abortion is wrong for any reason whatsoever then there is no justification for the termination of a pregnancy on the grounds of identified handicap . |
| 19 | It 's unfair for another reason : most of the walkers , climbers and cavers that come to the Dales , the Lakes and the mountains come because they love them , because they respect them and care for them and want to keep them the way they are so that the people of the future can enjoy the wildness and the greatness of the earth . |
| 20 | But this particular extract is useful for another reason , in that it shows , through the sub-plots which appear within it , the range of issues provoked by the research which respondents were sensitive about . |
| 21 | ‘ Room dressing ’ is usually ignored unless it 's important for some reason . |
| 22 | The number of reports is important for another reason . |
| 23 | Time spent away from the children is important for another reason , too . |
| 24 | Saint-Savin has the makings of a fine portal at the west end , but because most of the decoration is illegible for one reason or another , and not least because of the impious mutilation it suffered during the Revolution , it is nothing to dwell on . |
| 25 | When the directors consider that it is essential for some reason to depart from these fundamental accounting principles a note must be included in the accounts stating the nature of the departure , the reason for it , and its effect . |
| 26 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 27 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 28 | She spoke sharply , and her niece saw that she was upset for some reason . |
| 29 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 30 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |