Example sentences of "reasons for [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My initial reasons for believing in the men 's innocence were ones of which the law takes no cognisance at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 4 | In my opinion , too , it is rather depressing if feminists are starting to forget the reasons for speaking in one way and not another . |
| 5 | Both France and England had positive reasons for intervening in Brittany . |
| 6 | But even though nostalgia may not be what it used to be , even for these people there are good reasons for staying in touch . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Often they have understandable ( albeit incorrect ) reasons for acting in the way they did . |
| 10 | The heroes , the solid men of yeoman virtue , the good breeding stock , even the captain ( especially the captain ! ) — they all went down nobly with the ship ; whereas the cowards , the panickers , the deceivers found reasons for skulking in a lifeboat . |
| 11 | He gave four reasons for deciding in favour of a binary system : the demand for vocational , professional and industrial based courses required a separate sector with a separate tradition and outlook ; a ladder system with the universities at the head would inevitably depress and degrade morale and standards in the non-university sector ; there was a need for a substantial part of the higher education system to be under social control and directly responsible to social needs ; and , lastly , no other country in the western world downgraded its non-university professional and technical sector . |
| 12 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 13 | There are many good reasons for putting in a network , but a couple are compelling : resource sharing and specific functionality . |