Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | No person or group has claimed responsibility or given any reason for the attacks . |
| 2 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 3 | I can see no ground whatever , on the face of the statute , why in a section 8(2) case the driver should be invited to state whether he prefers to give blood or urine or to state any reasons for his preference . |
| 4 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 5 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 6 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 7 | Not allowing any illegal drugs in your own home : threaten to call the police if you do find drugs or have serious reason to suspect their use . |
| 8 | The Labour Party , with considerable justification , saw itself as the " united front of the working class " and found little reason for joint activity with sectarian minorities on the Left . |
| 9 | Hopefully she would find Suzie and talk some reason into her head within the six days she had allotted herself . |
| 10 | They both felt , rightly , that the miners were close to being starved into submission and saw little reason to interfere with this elegant process . |
| 11 | They found that most parents opposed closure and gave educational reasons for their attitudes . |
| 12 | At the same time as writing down the reasons , other things came to mind which could illustrate and support those reasons , so they are jotted down too . |
| 13 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 14 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 15 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 16 | Jack was on call anyway and had more reason to be there than her , but if anything that was an added incentive to stay . |
| 17 | Mrs Kirstine Fry had suffered the misfortune to open a registered letter from the increasingly unpopular Flashman , dismissing her husband and outlining six reasons why he had to go . |
| 18 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |