Example sentences of "this [is] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this is for economic reasons . |
| 2 | This is for two reasons : ( a ) state subsidies to farmers are harder to disguise than rigged prices , and therefore harder to keep increasing ; so even if the right reforms initially seem perverse — requiring EC governments to spend more on farmers — that will be only temporary . |
| 3 | Management development therefore moves centre stage , and this is for two reasons . |
| 4 | This is for two reasons . |
| 5 | This is for two reasons : first , these strategies largely ignore the political conditions of their implementation , and second , they fail to answer the question of whether such a ‘ regeneration ’ is possible and whether , if possible , it can take place under conditions which will be of benefit to socialist politics . |
| 6 | This is for two reasons ( which , by the way , are often wrongly conflated , including in some of these essays ) . |
| 7 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 8 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |