Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people |
| 2 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 3 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 4 | There always has to be good reason ( which is not defined , but is a sort of distilled wisdom ) for undertaking a statutory enquiry ; it ca n't just be a fishing expedition . |
| 5 | There appears to me , for the purposes of the investigation referred to at 1 above , to be good reason to exercise the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Act for the purpose of investigating the affairs of the persons under investigation . |
| 6 | In general , however , despite the fact that anachronisms do exist in the published text of the Kanunname , there seems to be good reason for supposing the provisions in it concerning the learned hierarchy to be basically genuine . |
| 7 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 8 | The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason . |
| 9 | There had to be another reason . ’ |
| 10 | The recommendations of the Warnock Report and the legislation of the 1981 Education Act are significant in the educational placement of visually handicapped pupils , especially since the presence of visual impairments is no longer considered to be sufficient reason for special school placement nor is special school placement an inevitable consequence of the ascertainment of visual impairment . |
| 11 | With ‘ non-reminiscers ’ there would appear to be less reason to dwell on the past , and it might be more useful to avoid it unless the counsellor feels that there is a particularly strong reason and purpose for doing so . |
| 12 | There had to be some reason why , some factor strong enough to outweigh all his obvious qualifications . |
| 13 | There 's got to be some reason we all drop dead in the end . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 15 | The existence of an internationalised contract between a private entity and a State is frequently asserted , and there does not appear to be any reason why international law can not be the proper law of a contract between an international organisation and a private entity . |
| 16 | And then , because there did not seem to be any reason to wait , they moved cautiously to the door at the far end of the wood-store and inched it open . |