Example sentences of "reason [is] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 2 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 3 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 4 | When demand outstrips supply by the widest margin , the reason is usually that the original seller is trying to rig the market — as at the FA Cup final , or Wimbledon . |
| 5 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |