Example sentences of "[adj] reasons for believe that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more cogent reasons for believing that ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ is not really a goddess but the heroine Europa . |
| 2 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 3 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 4 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 5 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 6 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not . |
| 9 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 10 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 11 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 12 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |