Example sentences of "reason for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to identify your personal reasons for wanting to be slimmer and feel healthier . |
| 2 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 3 | The reasons for belonging into class II may be numerous : you can not formulate the problem , you can not solve the resulting equations analytically , the computer you have access to is not big enough , etc. , etc . |
| 4 | There are other reasons for belonging to a choir . |
| 5 | However , there is very strong reasons for thinking about colour coding . |
| 6 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 7 | The proper officer then sends copies of the application and affidavit to the creditor , who is to give reasons for objecting within 14 days , failing which , an order is made by the proper officer in the terms asked ; the proper officer still adjudicates ( the staff have means guidelines ) even if objection is taken , until the creditor , within 14 days of such adjudication , asks for reconsideration , when , the proceedings being transferred to the debtor 's home court , the application is finally determined by the district judge . |
| 8 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 9 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 10 | The proportion of the workforce covered by medical records ( the source of our data ) is probably greater than on most sites because a visit to the medical centre was one of the few legitimate reasons for breaking off work , so often made irksome by harsh weather . |
| 11 | I 'll give my reasons for voting against this budget . |
| 12 | He would need to give them further reasons for allying with him . |
| 13 | My initial reasons for believing in the men 's innocence were ones of which the law takes no cognisance at all . |
| 14 | The dominating tendency of mental life , and perhaps of nervous life in general , is the effort to reduce , to keep constant or to remove internal tension due to stimuli ( the ‘ Nirvana Principle ’ , to borrow a term from Barbara Low ) — a tendency which finds expression in the pleasure principle ; and our recognition of that fact is one of our strongest reasons for believing in the existence of the death instincts . |
| 15 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 16 | In my opinion , too , it is rather depressing if feminists are starting to forget the reasons for speaking in one way and not another . |
| 17 | The reasons for looking at this change and , I quote the reports the the ways the district council interpret the existing clause about provi , precedency is the district council ah , interpret in very different ways . |
| 18 | Both France and England had positive reasons for intervening in Brittany . |
| 19 | There are substantial reasons for attributing to Evesham the monuments to Hester Salusbury ( died 1614 , Stansted Mountfitchet , Essex ) ; Robert Rich , first Earl of Warwick ( died 1619 , Snarford , Lincolnshire ) ; Sir Justinian Lewin ( died 1620 , Otterden , Kent ) ; John Troughton ( died 1621 , Ingatestone , Essex ) , and the black stone panel engraved with allegorical devices in commemoration of Guy Carleton ( died 1628 , Cuckfield , East Sussex ) . |
| 20 | Vice Chair , I have given the Council , I believe , many good reasons for electing to the office of Lord Mayor for this year . |
| 21 | But even though nostalgia may not be what it used to be , even for these people there are good reasons for staying in touch . |
| 22 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 23 | The immature deliberative faculty will mature ; children have the ‘ possibility apparent ’ of turning into rational beings ( Hobbes ) ; they love to be treated as though they were rational though they are not so yet ( Locke ) ; you can give the prerational child reasons for acting in certain ways and he will turn into the youth who is capable of having principles ( Kant ) . |
| 24 | For that reason , the model adopted in medical education where the student is continually asked to articulate his or her experience and give reasons for acting in a certain way is particularly valuable . |
| 25 | Often they have understandable ( albeit incorrect ) reasons for acting in the way they did . |
| 26 | Although it seems that the luminosity of the centre can be provided by the central star cluster , there remain compelling reasons for searching for a possibly dormant massive black hole . |
| 27 | 10 REASONS FOR SUBSCRIBING TO MARXISM TODAY THIS MONTH |
| 28 | What would you consider justifiable reasons for going into debt ? |
| 29 | Guy Burgess had told my Gateshead chorus-boy friend , Jack Hewit , that Philby must have had very good reasons for going to Franco in Salamanca . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |