Example sentences of "a reason [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 2 | Though his skin was pale , he had the lips and round face of a black African , and that African quality of showing that one does not need a reason to be happy . |
| 3 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's only slightly barmy , and even schizophrenics need a reason to be violent , real or imagined . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We would agree they have got a reason to be concerned about their future . ’ |
| 6 | Even linear operators are too general for quantum mechanics for a reason to which we must now turn . |
| 7 | I mean if he was going to attack me , he 'd surely do it at some time when he had a reason to be angry . |
| 8 | It was a tale that could be believed , but what he wanted was to have a reason to be somewhere else , not to be here when the shepherd came . |
| 9 | It is his statement of a reason to be content . |
| 10 | The alternative , of choosing between artists , is also hazardous , since it refutes the idea that they have a reason for exhibiting together , even if what the critic writes is favourable . |
| 11 | ‘ Choose to think that would be a reason for sending old Jack into the next world if you like , ’ she said . |
| 12 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 13 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 14 | Union leaders , however , were already invoking probable mortgage rises as a reason for an increase in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 15 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 16 | When the motivation of younger constables leads to offences being treated seriously , older or more dominant constables often use the celebration as a reason for discretion , especially in relation to drink-related offences . |
| 17 | Reaction as a reason for going international is often characterised by : |
| 18 | acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it . |
| 19 | An unoccupied person , finding a drum , may be seized with a desire to beat it ; but unless he is an imbecile he will be unable to continue beating it , and thereby satisfying a need ( rather than a ‘ desire ’ ) , without finding a reason for so doing . |
| 20 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 21 | Although rarely stated by ministers as a reason for privatization , the funds could be used to finance tax cuts and/or current spending . |
| 22 | The Circle went through the middle of his bed , he told us , so he had a reason for crossing it every night . |
| 23 | Indeed , Lewis was always impatient with ‘ Tollers ’ if he pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending an Inklings evening . |
| 24 | No firms mentioned reducing their dependence on skilled labour as a reason for introducing new technology — though a significant minority saw it as a way of reducing labour costs . |
| 25 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 26 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 27 | In chapter 12 Abraham was given a reason for his going , for the promises came hard on the heels of the command . |
| 28 | This was now ; there was a reason for everything ; it was simply a matter of courage and patience . |
| 29 | Quincx had insisted on telling both of them the details of Zambia 's difficulties , despite protests from Tammuz , feeling both women needed to be given a reason for the delay in Ari 's treatment . |
| 30 | My own view is that these exceptions are so infrequent that they are not a reason for abandoning the neo-Darwinist mechanism as the one which underlies the vast majority of adaptive evolutionary changes . |