main reason

collocation in English

meanings of mainand reason

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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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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Examples of main reason

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His mainreason is the following.
This was the mainreason for the interaction effect.
Several grammarians have concluded that the mainreason is educational.
These considerations are the mainreason for the present work.
The mainreason for this problem is the unknown words.
The mainreason for this is the availability of data.
The mainreason for exclusion was inappropriate study design.
In my view, the mainreason is limitations of data.
The first and mainreason is data availability.
But the mainreason appears in what happens next.
The mainreason is that the capitularies give restricted information.
Specifically, they assume that the mainreason researchers "reject the norm" is because many subjects do.
The mainreason for this was that the lessons were organised around songs.
The lack of personnel and specialized instruction were the mainreason for this cautious approach.
The mainreason is the lack of flexibility when composing scenarios.
The mainreason is that it treats audio data as a linear block of samples.
One mainreason for its popularity is the simplicity of modeling.
This is the mainreason for having a magazine devoted to it.
The mainreason for this is that after 15 years, its results still hold.
The mainreason for this is that currently, each practice has its own prescribing guidelines.
Three of these farmers gave this reason as the mainreason.
I believe that the mainreason for this limited usage is a problematic incentive structure.
This enormous decrease in the miss probability is the mainreason of the final improvement.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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