Example sentences of "[adj] reason for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more cogent reasons for believing that ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ is not really a goddess but the heroine Europa . |
| 2 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 3 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 4 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 5 | There are sound reasons for hoping that they will be a temporary phenomenon , for this country possesses all the skill and resources required to recover a dominating place in the economic world . ' |
| 6 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 7 | There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one . |
| 8 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 9 | As will be seen in my concluding remarks , there are some reasons for believing that the era of a true psychoanalytic psychology of the superego is about to dawn . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there are some reasons for thinking that we are acquainted with the ‘ I ’ . |
| 11 | However , there is some reason for thinking that Freud may have had something else in mind , namely , the symbols which occur in dream life , some of which are widespread among different cultures and epochs . |
| 12 | This is another reason for believing that the best regressions take place under hypnosis . |
| 13 | There is another reason for thinking that the Craigearn line is special . |
| 14 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 15 | That he did not himself fly away is strong evidence for this belief , especially if predators prefer to attack lone birds , and we have further reason for thinking that the bird believes that . |
| 16 | We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation . |
| 17 | Thus if a member has a sound reason for believing that some malpractice is occurring in connection with the council 's funds , he is under a public duty to inform the council . |
| 18 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 19 | Having made those findings , the justices then gave the following reasons for deciding that the threshold criteria under section 31 were satisfied . |
| 20 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |
| 21 | This leads to our second reason for feeling that we had to explain how women have come so far : when women achieved the vote little else changed . |
| 22 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 23 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 24 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 25 | There are many reasons for supposing that the small family is here to stay . |
| 26 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 27 | But , as we have seen , there are good reasons for thinking that such countervailing forces do indeed exist , principally in the archaic superego structures which , thanks to neoteny and the neurophysiological changes of the latency period , have become natural to man . |
| 28 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 29 | It 's , it 's reflected in mammalian societies like deer and er there are good reasons for thinking that it also applies to er human beings . |
| 30 | On the contrary , law-giving was an important part of Christian kingship , and there are consequently good reasons for thinking that some aspects of Wulfstan 's activities would have been welcome to him , for he was certainly concerned to appear the Christian king ( see Chapter 4 ) . |