Example sentences of "be for [art] [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 2 | bigger that 's for the same reason , there you 've got an E , and so because you 've got the E we can double the G to make the I go on , go on say short for |
| 3 | This is for no better reason than that few readers of such newspapers would respond and we would get a very low return on our advertising investment . |
| 4 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 5 | I believe it is for the fundamental reason summed up in the idea of Christ 's inclusive humanity . |
| 6 | The conversion was for a technical reason — this was the third year of World War One and the dye for the paper was manufactured in Germany . |
| 7 | As he has said ‘ the man who throws a race is a crook for life ’ , it is fair to guess that Melges ' ’ day off ’ was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 9 | Interestingly , his poor showing was for the same reason as that of much of the European contingent . |