obvious reason
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobviousandreason
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obvious
adjective
uk/ˈɒb.vi.əs/us/ˈɑːb.vi.əs/
easy to see, recognize, ...
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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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(Definition ofobviousandreasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofobvious reason
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The mostobviousreasonwas financial.
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Theobviousreasonfor the failure was a low level of general language comprehension skills.
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However, they expressed reservations about this model for theobviousreason.
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There seems noobviousreasonto celebrate difference in positive law as such.
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And yet there is noobviousreasonwhy this should be.
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In artificial, meaningless languages, there is noobviousreasonto expect a different type of chunking.
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The mostobviousreasonfor this is growth in global competition.
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A second, fairlyobviousreasonfor the failure of structural adjustment is lack of accountability.
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There is noobviousreasonto presume that a single principle defines justice.
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However, there is noobviousreasonwhy this should be true.
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Oneobviousreasonmight be the classifier's lack of discourse information.
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Self-fertilizing generations are the mostobviousreasonfor this finding.
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There is anobviousreason.
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There is anobviousreasonfor this emphasis on predictive validity as a necessary arbiter in distinguishing disorder from nondisorder.
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Theobviousreasonfor this is that we do not know, in general, that the optimal one exists.
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Oneobviousreasonis that a nonlinear theory must depend on the specific kind of nonlinearity employed.
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Oneobviousreasonfor this initial uncertainty is membership turnover as well as changes in the party composition of legislatures.
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Oneobviousreasonis that political parties have differed historically on the proper role of government in medical care.
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From a medical standpoint, there was noobviousreasonfor this child not to recover respiratory function.
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The target language's output processing mechanism is activated for theobviousreasonthat output in this language is required.
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Anobviousreasonfor this is the weaker control over expenditure that public programmes in these nations generally exercised.
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The mostobviousreasonwhy one might hold this view would be the assumption that religious beliefs are simply false.
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A lessobviousreasonfor concern over the loss of a popular class of theistic proofs is the following.
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Nor is there anyobviousreasonfor pen to be lower than on2 if these vowels are phonemically distinct.
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