Example sentences of "they have reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wisely orders his men to occupy a certain hill it does not follow that they had reason to occupy that hill even before they were ordered to do so . |
| 2 | Imagine the outcry if the police were to send this type of letter to an adolescent they had reason to believe had violated the law : |
| 3 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 4 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 5 | Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence . |
| 6 | Seaside wear seemed inappropriate , yet they could not see that they had reason to mourn the passing of Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 7 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 8 | The government has authority over them only if they have reason to contribute to a scheme which benefits others . |
| 9 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 10 | to get skilled advice if they have reason to believe that their teenager may be genuinely homosexual . |
| 11 | They hope the deficit will anyway shrink rapidly , and they have reason to think so : unemployment is falling more quickly than in previous recessions . |
| 12 | It is for the housing authority to decide whether they have reason to believe the matters which will give rise to the duty to inquire or to the temporary housing duty . |
| 13 | To this end the police may arrest without a warrant for a breach of the peace and , as a general rule , they may enter private premises without a warrant in order to stop or prevent a breach of the peace if they have reason to suspect that this may occur . |
| 14 | SIB said that although a large number of investors have received redress there may be others who are not aware they have reason for complaint or of how to complain and may be eligible for compensation . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) The SIB and appropriate SROs have incorporated into their rulebooks so-called " cold-shouldering " rules which require their members conducting investment business not to act in connection with transactions regulated by the Code for persons whom they have reason to believe would not comply with UK practice and standards in takeovers . |
| 16 | Suppose it has never been decided whether people who accept a check they have reason to believe is forged can nevertheless collect on it . |
| 17 | If I can talk about one particular council , Gloucestsershire , feel they have reason to be aggrieved with the Government . |