Example sentences of "we have reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had reason to believe … ’ |
| 2 | We have reason to believe Tammuz Malamute is involved . ’ |
| 3 | We have reason to believe an attempt has already been made , by the Russians . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you care to modify it if I tell you that we have reason to believe that you recognised Wetherby at dinner on Thursday night ? ’ |
| 5 | We say , ‘ The sea appears blue ’ and ‘ AB looks shorter than BC ’ because we have reason to refrain from the stronger statement . |
| 6 | ‘ We have reason to believe , ’ said the sergeant , taking no notice of the question , ‘ that this boat has recently been involved in illegal traffic , and that the said operation was centred on the island of Faarsay . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We have reason to believe that you recently broke into Taigh na Tuir , the house belonging to Mr Hamilton here , and that you know something of the whereabouts of two valuable guns . ’ |
| 8 | On the basis of his behaviour , therefore , we have reason to maintain that Fido believes that bones are related to his desires or preferences in the following way : Bones satisfy certain desires he has and are to be chosen to satisfy those desires . |
| 9 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 11 | For example , suppose we have a measurable quantity f which we have reason to suppose is a polynomial function of an independent variable t : unc and we wish to find the m coefficients |
| 12 | Subsequently we have reason to believe that he is keeping additional narcotics on the premises and we have a right to search your home without a warrant . ’ |
| 13 | We have reason to believe that your boyfriend is in possession of a considerable amount of LSD . |
| 14 | ‘ We have reason to believe you may be carrying controlled drugs about your person . ’ |
| 15 | Someone may now say : nevertheless , though checkerboard solutions may be desirable for that reason on some occasions , we do better to reject their use out of hand in advance , because we have reason to think that in the long run more discrete injustice will be created than avoided through these solutions . |
| 16 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |