Example sentences of "[adj] reason for [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reason for choosing this pattern is that the strokes with the lace carriage follows a regular pattern . |
| 2 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 3 | Another reason for adopting this approach is that infants born to mothers who have no perinatal risk factors suffer from less severe infections and respond better to treatment . |
| 4 | Another reason for rejecting this causal theory of meaning is that when one asks what is meant by a statement one is normally concerned to know what a reasonable speaker is saying in uttering it . |
| 5 | This is a further reason for considering such skills an essential part of the staff nurses ' role rather than as an added extra to be fitted in whenever possible : today 's staff nurses are the ward sisters of tomorrow , and they do not simply pick up teaching skills automatically when they are given a new job title . |
| 6 | There is a sound reason for rewording that clause , because that is too frequent an occurrence in day-to-day life in prison . |
| 7 | The LEA must pay costs from excepted funds unless there is a justifiable reason for taking these from the school 's own monies . |
| 8 | A second reason for preferring this new version is that the cast , while not composed of better singers , is on the whole better suited , character by character , to the roles . |
| 9 | He had a second reason for doing this , which was that he hoped thereby to put pressure on France and Germany to hand over to Spain part of French Morocco . |
| 10 | Once this trip was over she would let him know her real reason for taking this job with Woodline Design , then she would say goodbye . |
| 11 | Then her married sister arrived at the house with news of her real reason for going each evening to the post office . |
| 12 | So the pragmatist judge will behave like Earl in Elmer 's case only if he has an indirect , noble-lie reason for pretending that legislative intentions are relevant . |
| 13 | That 's another good reason for keeping all your inputs in a separate area . |
| 14 | His descendants were to have good reason for echoing such sentiments in relation to the behaviour of Henry VIII 's troops in Scotland . |
| 15 | Conservation of energy gave a good reason for putting all those sciences which dealt with energy in one form or another , and even those perhaps which dealt with its interconversions , under one umbrella . |
| 16 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 17 | There seems to be no logical reason for ignoring some and then picking on one , but one can only suppose that , having missed , for whatever reason , their first opportunity of causing trouble , the authorities were just glad to get a second chance . |
| 18 | Admittedly , there is now much less reason for invoking this doomsday scenario . |
| 19 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 20 | Although much of the argument before him and much of his judgment were devoted to the legal rights of a 16-year-old , the only reason for exploring this was that W. was resisting a change of regime . |
| 21 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 22 | According to Kuhn , ‘ … thoroughness was not the only reason for doing this . |
| 23 | As Marianne , a programmer , said ‘ My only reason for doing this at home is to be with the children , and the worst thing about it is never getting away from the children . ’ |
| 24 | That , though , is far from the only reason for contemplating this remarkable substance |
| 25 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 26 | ( This is one reason for giving more attention to economic movements and social structure than our predecessors would have done . ) |
| 27 | One reason for having that meeting is to reform the institutions so that they can cope with a second wave of new members , this time from Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | On the contrary , they would have the normal reason for disregarding any belief or information on that score : that the law is the law and must be followed , no matter how unpopular it might be in the present climate of political opinion . |
| 29 | It removes a standard Behaviouralist reason for thinking that science should stick to observables and for presuming that observation can be pure . |
| 30 | A and again , but why did you shout armed police , was there any particular reason for using those ? |