Example sentences of "[pron] be reason [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though supporting evidence is scarce , there are reasons to argue that birth order has an independent effect on the chances of survival . |
| 2 | Having said this , there are reasons to suppose that labour supply would not be as responsive to tax changes as is , perhaps , expected . |
| 3 | As noted in the previous discussion , there are reasons to suppose that the difficulties of underdeveloped regions , peripheral regions and declining industries are likely to worsen , if only in the short term , as the many structural adjustments outlined above are induced by the creation of the SEM . |
| 4 | But there are reasons to wonder , or even to suggest that the goal of International Relations should be understanding rather than explanation . |
| 5 | There are reasons showing that it is better to require that the tax due shall be paid either in quarterly or in monthly payments . |
| 6 | If there are reasons to indicate that the child has visual defects , more detailed and sophisticated tests will be undertaken by an ophthalmologist to whom the child will be referred . |
| 7 | The construction does not , I think , accomplish this , and there are reasons to believe that it can not be successfully carried out . |
| 8 | There are reasons to believe that the association may be a primary affect of drug treatment , which could mediate some of the pathological changes associated with NSAID use rather than a secondary consequence of these changes . |
| 9 | But there are reasons to think that the Next Steps programme may create problems of political accountability . |
| 10 | Discovery was inevitable and when it came at last there were reasons to rejoice , but not at the reunion with Christopher . |
| 11 | He found that there were reasons to believe that bodies were placed supine below the pyre and that the average temperature achieved was about 900° C , but the quantity of fuel required was not determined . |
| 12 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 13 | And if there is reason to deviate from historical practice , it is important to consult this book to get a rational perspective and to get a systematic approach into what one is doing . |
| 14 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 15 | There is reason to suppose that neither of his collections of legal opinions ( digesta and responsa ) was published during his lifetime , and that they first appeared after the death of Ulpian , in the epi-classical period . |
| 16 | While neutral language may be less overtly offensive than the kind it replaces , there is reason to suppose that it is often ineffective , in the sense that it does not really bring women into people 's mental landscape at all . |
| 17 | And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English . |
| 18 | That is , there is reason to accept the outcome of market processes and avoid interference with them . |
| 19 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 20 | There is reason to think they were also feeling the loss of their carriers that June at the battle of Midway , and were looking for more land bases for aircraft . |
| 21 | There is reason to think that the recession will be relatively shallow and short-lived — Lamont , December 12 , 1990 . |
| 22 | Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used . |
| 23 | Yet there is reason to think that the cover-up was deliberated ‘ Indy 's Rameaugate . |
| 24 | If this diversity in ethos cuts across any diversity in the objective conditions in which teachers find themselves , as it seems to , then there is reason to doubt the idea that decline in these conditions is the cause of teacher demoralization . |
| 25 | However , when the recipients of local government services are identified , there is reason to question this argument . |
| 26 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 27 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 28 | Base-of-overburden samples may be taken where glacial deposits are widespread or there is reason to suspect transport of elements of interest . |
| 29 | There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked . |
| 30 | There is reason to associate this with the Minister of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty known as Imhotep , later deified as the Father of Egyptian science . |