underlying reason
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunderlyingandreason
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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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reason
noun
uk/ˈriː.zən/us/ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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Theunderlyingreasonfor this lies in the time-series properties of the different stock variables.
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There has been much speculation on theunderlyingreasonfor these high frequencies.
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Theunderlyingreasonfor establishing these committees was so that they could work as watchdog bodies for the ministries.
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Whatever theunderlyingreason, the death or removal of animals would have meant a reduction or cessation of grazing.
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In this sense, it shares an emphasis found in ethnomusicology, where theunderlyingreasonis reliance on participantobservation.
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That has been the basic,underlyingreason.
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Theunderlyingreasonwas quite simple.
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That is theunderlyingreasonfor the legislation.
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He revealed theunderlyingreasonfor his new clause.
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Theunderlyingreasonfor all that is simple.
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I think that to be theunderlyingreason.
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But that is not the onlyunderlyingreason.
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We reject theunderlyingreasonfor these measures.
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There was sometimes anunderlyingreasonfor that.
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That is theunderlyingreasonfor this amendment before us.
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I agree with theunderlyingreasonfor its formation.
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If illegitimacy was theunderlyingreasonfor abandonment, then it might be expected that abandonment would take place as soon after birth as possible.
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Theunderlyingreasonfor the mixed messages on mentoring is the sheer complexity of evaluative questions that need to be addressed.
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It is also arguable that the unclear 'woolly term' is theunderlyingreasonwhy the paper is posed as a question.
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If we place all the prefaces side by side, this seems to be the mainunderlyingreasonfor the blossoming and liveliness of the genre.
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Theunderlyingreasonwhy the attempt to graft market elements on to the command-administrative system was a failure can be understood from the standpoint of systems theory.
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What the argument concerning the "necessity of unilateral dominance for speech" means is that theunderlyingreasonfor human functional asymmetries is grounded in comprehensible issues of behavior.
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That was theunderlyingreasonfor the unpopularity of the community charge.
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We must clearly look therefore to another cause as theunderlyingreasonfor this breakdown.
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