Example sentences of "[prep] reason i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only popular spectator sport , as opposed to game , is professional boxing although for reasons I shall come to later , the only sportsmen involved are those backing the contenders and not the participants themselves . |
| 2 | I think he finally started thinking , for reasons I ca n't say , about whether or not he could actually leave the hospital , and he finally asked , and he realized that he could n't leave the hospital alive . |
| 3 | If they are equating punishment with the wider range of non-physical penalties , however , I would not agree ( for reasons I will explain later ) . |
| 4 | Besides , for reasons I will come to shortly , the name Argol was familiar to me . |
| 5 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 6 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |