Example sentences of "reason for [v-ing] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an executive with a long-term career plan to protect , you may have sound reasons for leaving before a dismissal occurs or for departing on mutually agreed terms . |
| 2 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 3 | This power existed where , as the statute provided , it appeared to him that there were reasons for doubting whether the trade union members , in taking part in industrial action , were acting in accordance with their own wishes . |
| 4 | However , there are good reasons for believing that the interpretation of discourse in more natural situations does involve the integration of related pieces of information in memory . |
| 5 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 6 | There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes . |
| 7 | As will be seen in my concluding remarks , there are some reasons for believing that the era of a true psychoanalytic psychology of the superego is about to dawn . |
| 8 | Rather , an essential starting-point must be to identify what variety of this right is being invoked , and what are the reasons for believing that the right in question ought at all costs to be maintained . |
| 9 | Where God has given us sure and sufficient reasons for believing or the possibility of profound understanding in our believing , it is perverse to insist on having less than what he offers . |
| 10 | There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one . |
| 11 | Given these considerations I think Warnock is wrong to claim that there are reasons for saying that the baby saw these things . |
| 12 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
| 13 | There are plenty of reasons for supposing that the merger trend will gain vigour . |
| 14 | Having made those findings , the justices then gave the following reasons for deciding that the threshold criteria under section 31 were satisfied . |
| 15 | In Amoco Lord Cross said the fact that a covenantor had obtained and would continue to enjoy benefits under the agreement which he claimed to be unenforceable was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 16 | As a result of this ‘ myth ’ , however , the very fact of variable spelling in an Early Middle English document becomes in itself a reason for concluding that the scribe was Anglo-Norman and therefore that his spelling can be corrected by editors and ignored by historical commentators and dialectologists . |
| 17 | We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation . |
| 18 | There is good reason for believing that the recovery will be firmly established in the course of 1992. — Lamont , January 22 , 1992 |
| 19 | That he did not himself fly away is strong evidence for this belief , especially if predators prefer to attack lone birds , and we have further reason for thinking that the bird believes that . |
| 20 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 21 | There is another reason for thinking that the Craigearn line is special . |
| 22 | ( Care is required over this last point because we have no reason for supposing that the programs unc are in any sense " simpler " than he complete program . |
| 23 | Even if it were valid , I can see no reason for supposing that the argument relies upon it . |
| 24 | Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted , when learners are of an age , for example , at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection , there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , we insist on treating internally compromised statutes as the acts of a single distinct moral agent , then we can condemn them as unprincipled , and we then have a reason for arguing that no official should contribute to his state 's unprincipled acts . |
| 26 | But the fact that the coin caused the mechanism to operate is no reason for saying that the coin caused the bar to come out . |
| 27 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 28 | In paragraph 8(c) the coroner explained his reason for deciding that the death was by natural causes . |