Example sentences of "the reason [is] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s ! |
| 2 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 3 | The reason is largely that younger researchers are unwilling or unable to embark on a career in this kind of research . |
| 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 . |