Example sentences of "be [det] [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | There might , for example , be some legal reason why the examiner could not administer the oath . |
| 2 | ‘ So there must be some other reason you changed yer time off . |
| 3 | There has to be some other reason for it . |
| 4 | There must be some other reason … |
| 5 | But I was sure there must be some other reason for the red shift . |
| 6 | The witness must be outside the jurisdiction and there must be some good reason why he can not attend for examination in the usual way . |
| 7 | It has to be some solid reason . |
| 8 | In short , there may be some special reason for buying this set ( memories of Zampieri 's Minnie at Covent Garden in 1985 and later , perhaps , or an interest in hearing Domingo live ) , but otherwise I would find any other of the available versions preferable . |
| 9 | No , there has to be some deeper reason . |
| 10 | ‘ Could there be any other reason ? |
| 11 | ‘ But most often there does n't seem to be any good reason . |
| 12 | There could n't be any personal reason . ’ |
| 13 | In this sense , while its practical effects would demand close supervision , and while the evidence for it is all late , there does not seem to be any particular reason why the classical jurists should not have admitted it . |
| 14 | Once the link between property ownership and control is severed there no longer seems to be any compelling reason why the shareholders should receive all the profits of the company or why corporate managers should run the company in their interest alone . |