Below you will find example sentences with "sole reason". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Sole Reason in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: sole
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "sole reason" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as for the sole reason that they, as the sole reason for all, people, saying and need stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with sole purpose, sole director, exact reason, sole purpose, sole director and sole survivor, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with sole reason
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The sole reason I bought shares was its alluring dividend yield. (11 words)
This is the sole reason why cleaning your carpets is non-negotiable. (12 words)
Marat Karabayev did not say how it exploded with it not expected to be the sole reason for the disaster. (20 words)
Eby echoed Horgan’s position, saying B.C.’s close integration with U.S. states gives rise to legitimate business concerns if the province moves to a different time zone, and the need to stay aligned is the “sole reason” changes have not already been made. (46 words)
In 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, ruling that it only needed to demonstrate that race was a factor in Comcast’s decision-making on Entertainment Studios’ channels, not the sole reason for declining to carry the channels. (42 words)
They never supported the amnesty programme that exposed their hatchet men who are being trailed by security agencies and this is their sole reason for wanting to incite another round of crisis in Onelga through these unfounded accusations against me. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Eby echoed Horgan’s position, saying B.C.’s close integration with U.S. states gives rise to legitimate business concerns if the province moves to a different time zone, and the need to stay aligned is the “sole reason” changes have not already been made.
One of them, Muni Nilesh Chandra Maharaj, went as far as crediting Nathuram Godse (assassin of Mahatma Gandhi) as the sole reason why India is still dominated by the Hindus.
The club atmosphere nourishes a constructive environment, as the sole reason for all players on the field is a want to, not a need.
For many people, the sole reason to visit Flam, the village at the end of the spectacular, 29-kilometre-long Aurlandsfjord in western Norway, is the Flam Railway.
Harris refused to acknowledge that he was impaired, despite the fact that it was the sole reason she was running as the Democrat candidate.
Marat Karabayev did not say how it exploded with it not expected to be the sole reason for the disaster.
The sole reason I bought shares was its alluring dividend yield.
The document cites “unusual and compelling urgency” as the sole reason for eschewing the standard competitive contracting process, despite being issued 10 months into the crisis.
The victims were “people targeted for the sole reason that they were present in this church at that moment,” Ricard said at a press conference late Thursday.
The victims were "people targeted for the sole reason that they were present in this church at that moment," said Ricard.
In 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, ruling that it only needed to demonstrate that race was a factor in Comcast’s decision-making on Entertainment Studios’ channels, not the sole reason for declining to carry the channels.
This is the sole reason why cleaning your carpets is non-negotiable.
We want people to read our work and act upon it, as appropriate, but that can’t be the sole reason for doing it.
Along with her success, women’s boxing has reaped the benefits, but Braekhus is quick to point out that she’s not the sole reason for the upward mobility of women’s boxing.
He believed that everyone is exceptional and not created for the sole reason of being a member of a family; but everyone must have a voice.
In 2016, BLinC refused to allow a student to serve as the group’s vice president for the sole reason that he was gay.
I wouldn’t go as far as saying he is the sole reason for the Bears’ turnaround this season, but he is a helluva lot more important than anyone would have thought a year ago.
They never supported the amnesty programme that exposed their hatchet men who are being trailed by security agencies and this is their sole reason for wanting to incite another round of crisis in Onelga through these unfounded accusations against me.
Trump, taking to his favorite medium of Twitter, declared the defeat of the Islamic State extremist movement, which he said was the sole reason for the presence of 2,000 troops in Syria.
G.M. Kropotkin, The Ruling Bureaucracy and the "New Order" of Russian Statehood, pages 23 In fact, many officials believed this fear was practically the sole reason for the Manifesto’s creation in the first place.