Example sentences of "[modal v] be reason [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there could be reason to think his administration would bring a new dawn for local democracy . |
| 2 | But there may be reasons to think that they may reject the null hypothesis of speculative efficiency even when the latter is in fact true . |
| 3 | Any analogies have to be with living creatures that are distantly related in the zoological sense , although there may be reasons to suspect that they have similar life habits to those that the fossil animals once enjoyed . |
| 4 | It is difficult to obtain precise figures of private sector investment in the inner cities , but there may be reasons to doubt industry 's willingness to commit billions of pounds to inner city developments . |
| 5 | But , as we saw in the last chapter , there may be reasons to reject this analysis of causation in favour of the one involving real connections or causal powers or both . |
| 6 | Indeed there may be reason to think that such a dichotomy can not for ever persist . |
| 7 | Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be . |