Example sentences of "[art] [adj] reason for [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That , though , is far from the only reason for contemplating this remarkable substance |
| 4 | According to Kuhn , ‘ … thoroughness was not the only reason for doing this . |
| 5 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 6 | Arguably , the best reason for exceeding this fairly meaningless average cost is quality . |
| 7 | It is sometimes argued that the main reason for allowing such matters as provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter is to avoid the mandatory penalty for murder . |
| 8 | The main reason for adopting this definition will reveal itself in Sections 3.6 and 3.7 . |
| 9 | The main reason for showing this example is not its intrinsic value to applied scientists ( the problem of space-charged-limited diodes is no longer in the forefront of interest ) but to demonstrate the applicability of Poisson 's equation under conditions of steady current flow . |
| 10 | There is a sound reason for rewording that clause , because that is too frequent an occurrence in day-to-day life in prison . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The LEA must pay costs from excepted funds unless there is a justifiable reason for taking these from the school 's own monies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A particular reason for liking this was the absence of interest charges , but it also has the obvious attraction of flexibility — there 's no need to pay an instalment if money is short that week . |
| 20 | I know of no realistic reason for expecting any sixth-form college to introduce charges of the kind described . |
| 21 | There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started . |
| 22 | The point serves as a corrective to behaviourist tendencies in general , and therefore to Behaviouralism in International Relations , since it undermines a main reason for holding that science must stick to observable behaviour . |