Example sentences of "[art] reason given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 2 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 3 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 4 | Officially , the reason given was that it now seemed more sensible to store the highly active waste above ground for at least fifty years before disposing of it , probably in the form of glass blocks , and meanwhile allowing more of its intense heat to dissipate . |
| 5 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 6 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just a bit puzzled about the reason given — the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 8 | The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business . |
| 9 | The reason given for selling is to raise funds for the restoration of the Rosebery seat , Dalmeny House , near Edinburgh , where the painting was on show to the public until a year ago . |
| 10 | The reason given in around forty-five per cent of divorces and , if you believe the statistics , nearly 60,000 men are guilty of it , but fewer than 9,000 women . |
| 11 | Of its own motion the court may decide to bring a private prosecution to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service ; indeed a justices ' clerk is obliged to do so if a private prosecutor withdraws or fails to proceed in circumstances in which the reason given appears unsatisfactory . |
| 12 | Often , unpredictability is the reason given for doing nothing . |
| 13 | The reason given for the unique capacity of English to offer a truly democratic education is the peculiar nature of the poetic process : |
| 14 | As Table 2.10 shows , the single most important reason for taking a temporary job was that a permanent job was not available , although even then this was the reason given by only one third of all temporary workers . |
| 15 | No , for the reason given in my last answer . |
| 16 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 17 | Several trials reported the reason given by patients for dropping out from treatment . |
| 18 | For the reason given above this might well be totally wrong for large values of time . |
| 19 | The reason given usually was that oral work was so difficult to do . |
| 20 | The reason given for refusal was ‘ The proposed development would be in a prominent location within Scorton , and its construction would be unduly obtrusive in the street picture and detrimental to the character and appearance of both the Scorton Conservation Area and the Forest of Bowland AONB ’ ( See council minutes PL113 ) |
| 21 | The reason given was that approval had not been granted by the Engineering department . |
| 22 | The reason given for this is that the costs of installing and maintaining an accounting information system that computes individual cost centre rates is complex and expensive . |
| 23 | This is not indicated by the analysis in Section 17.3 , for the reason given there that the non-linear perturbation terms become significant . |
| 24 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 25 | The reason given by the agents for the cancellation was : " Stephane Grappelli is very seriously ill in Paris and is unlikely ever to tour again . " |
| 26 | Not , one hopes , for the reason given in 1848 by the Chief Justice , who argued that being black was " a great misfortune , but no crime " . |
| 27 | FOOTBALLING people are famous for their turn of phrase , but I was still intrigued to see the reason given by Graham Taylor to justify his choice of Paul Ince as England 's latest captain . |
| 28 | Perhaps the reason for that is similar to a reason given to George Ward , my predecessor as Member for Worcester , who represented the constituency from 1945 to 1959 . |
| 29 | Jammed down here between Tooting Bec and Balham on a train that 's going nowhere , with no reason given why , one can dread all sorts of things . |
| 30 | ‘ No reason given ? ’ |