Example sentences of "reason [prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 2 | As I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware , the reason for that is that the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of the year because it is used for heating . |
| 3 | One reason for that is that most of the thousands of people who travel on those wretched trains to come to London to work are either unskilled or semi-skilled , to use the terms of the manufacturing industry . |
| 4 | The reason for that is that the spot market varies with the dollar exchange rate and , for a long time , has been affected by the dumping of coal into Europe — something about which British Coal has complained to the Commission . |
| 5 | The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside . |
| 6 | The obvious reason for that is that the state pension is low . |
| 7 | I believe that the reason for that is that when the Bible is used in school or in church it is nearly always in the form of a modern version , which is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic . |
| 8 | The prospects for management buy-outs are really very bleak , the reason for that is that the franchises which we 're hearing about are likely to be very short , the franchisee will own no assets , no land , no rolling stock , nothing with which to go to the bank as security for loan . |
| 9 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 10 | The reason for that is that we do all our selling on the phone . |
| 11 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 12 | The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks . |
| 13 | The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the reason for that is that we spend about 45 minutes hitting balls on the range and 10 minutes putting before we tee off . |
| 15 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 16 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 17 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 18 | The reason for that is because those two notes also come in the minor scale . |
| 19 | Erm right so because trade in er trade in agricultural goods has fallen , one one of the reason for that is because there 's been a lot protectionism on er agricultural goods the other side of that coin is that protectionism in manufactured goods has has fallen okay . |
| 20 | Part of the reason for that is because sometimes even the press gets it wrong , or at least we used to get it wrong . |
| 21 | Er the reason for that is as already mentioned , that a comprehensive assessment has n't been done . |
| 22 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 23 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 24 | and the reason for that was because if left in it might mislead a prospective purchaser |
| 25 | And I think the reason for that was because they did n't have a say in what was happening . |
| 26 | Part of the reason for this is that the American professoriat is the largest in the world , while the American market for current art is unprecedented ; it is evident that the turnover of the American art market as a whole is the largest in the world . |
| 27 | The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 29 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 30 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |