Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] reasons for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset of their research , messrs Deakins and Hussain believed : ‘ there is a paucity of qualitative research that attempts to look at the relationship between the bank manager and the small business owner and the importance of different reasons for accepting and rejecting propositions that come before the banks . |
| 2 | Examples of different reasons for selling include sales by individual vendors who are retiring , sales by individuals who have inherited a family business , management buy-outs , group reorganisations , unbundling or demergers as defence mechanisms against a hostile bid , group rationalisations and sales by receivers and liquidators . |
| 3 | There are plenty of ordinary reasons for travelling : business ; visits to family or friends ; for culture or history ; sea , sun and sand ; religion or health ; education ; shopping ; food and wines ; or just plain fun . |
| 4 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 5 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 6 | There are plenty of other reasons for wanting to live there , with Carlingford Lough in one direction and the Mountains of Mourne in another : the physical beauty of Ulster is a secret as well-kept as the undemonstrative friendliness of its people . |
| 7 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm sure there are others with better reasons for wanting to get rid of him . ’ |
| 9 | Liberty is proposing regulations , including a rule requiring anyone installing cameras to supply the authorities with valid reasons for doing so . |
| 10 | Most important of all was the support of two powerful groups with special reasons for wanting a Democratic victory : the blacks , encouraged by Truman 's call for an end to discrimination ; and organized labour , bitterly smarting from the Taft-Hartley Act . |
| 11 | All of these can be viewed as valid reasons for changing a contract . |