Example sentences of "be [det] reason [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nostalgia apart , there are some reasons to dislike photocomposition . |
| 2 | There are many reasons to oppose this Bill . |
| 3 | There are many reasons to doubt that . |
| 4 | There are many reasons to expect a priori that standards of policing should have improved . |
| 5 | So there are many reasons to avoid crash dieting . |
| 6 | If the operative part could properly be controlled by the recitals , I think there would be much reason to say that the only thing contemplated by the recitals was giving time for payment , without any relinquishment , on the part of the judgment creditor , of any portion of the amount recoverable ( whether for principal or for interest ) under the judgment . |
| 7 | There will be many reasons put forward why the school library can not have its own microcomputer but it is up to the school librarian and interested teachers to present a reasonable case , based firmly on educational grounds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 11 | There were several reasons put forward for this rather modest use of economic information . |
| 12 | There is little reason to suppose that the consequences of these changes will in themselves lead farm workers to become more militant . |
| 13 | But it will emerge that there is little reason to believe that much of the confusion is classical . |
| 14 | There is little reason to believe that this will not be the pattern in the future too . |
| 15 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 16 | With regard to traditional conflicts of interest , which are also liable to be efficiency-reducing , there is little reason to think that the separation of ownership and control has contributed significantly to the scope for management self-dealing , but it does pose problems for the effectiveness of the mechanisms that regulate it , the design of which is premised on shareholder involvement . |
| 17 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 18 | There is little reason to doubt that they are being incarcerated because of their trade union membership . |
| 19 | We know this from Soviet accounts , but there is little reason to doubt them . |
| 20 | There is little reason to doubt that these pristine people are able to impart their special vision to those whom they choose to be the recipients of their ancient knowledge . |
| 21 | There is little reason to doubt O'Neill 's honesty : clearly she had a very unusual experience . |
| 22 | For the moment , there is little reason to doubt that he regards ‘ internationalism ’ as the highest form of patriotism . |
| 23 | Leading Liberals , including Asquith , frequently asserted their desire for radical reform of the Poor Law and there is little reason to doubt their sincerity . |
| 24 | His general theme is that reason has supremacy over revelation . |
| 25 | Historians have quarrelled about that since Thucydides and perhaps before ( for there is some reason to think that he was writing to correct what he saw as error , notably about the Megarian decree , for which see p. 91 ) . |
| 26 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 27 | There is some reason to believe them , despite the first instinct to be sceptical , since they already have access to plenty of mind-bending substances , from alcohol and tobacco to diet pills . |
| 28 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 29 | Thus even though a clearly recognizable individual equivalent of the mother-goddesses of primal agriculture will probably never be found in early childhood , there is some reason to believe that it may manifest itself later in life . |
| 30 | The durability of these cars makes them a prime target for clockers and is another reason to insist on up-to-date service schedules . |