Example sentences of "[adj] reasons for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more cogent reasons for believing that ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ is not really a goddess but the heroine Europa . |
| 2 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 3 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 4 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 5 | There are sound reasons for hoping that they will be a temporary phenomenon , for this country possesses all the skill and resources required to recover a dominating place in the economic world . ' |
| 6 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 7 | There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one . |
| 8 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 9 | Having made those findings , the justices then gave the following reasons for deciding that the threshold criteria under section 31 were satisfied . |
| 10 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 11 | But , as we have seen , there are good reasons for thinking that such countervailing forces do indeed exist , principally in the archaic superego structures which , thanks to neoteny and the neurophysiological changes of the latency period , have become natural to man . |
| 12 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's reflected in mammalian societies like deer and er there are good reasons for thinking that it also applies to er human beings . |
| 14 | On the contrary , law-giving was an important part of Christian kingship , and there are consequently good reasons for thinking that some aspects of Wulfstan 's activities would have been welcome to him , for he was certainly concerned to appear the Christian king ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 15 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 16 | However , there are good reasons for believing that the interpretation of discourse in more natural situations does involve the integration of related pieces of information in memory . |
| 17 | In fact , there are good reasons for supposing that the classic authoritarians of the study by Adorno et al . |
| 18 | She argues that there are good reasons for supposing that variables such as frequency , concreteness and prior priming — all of which influence the speed with which individual words can be accessed ( see Chapter 6 ) — will affect sentence production . |
| 19 | As I shall describe , there are good reasons for predicting that black holes should exist , and the observational evidence points strongly to the presence of a number of black holes in our own galaxy and more in other galaxies . |
| 20 | It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not . |
| 21 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 22 | There are various reasons for thinking that this might be the case . |
| 23 | However , there are various reasons for saying that man is the same grammatical element in 74a and b . |
| 24 | There are however immediate reasons for thinking that this stance is imperceptive . |
| 25 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 26 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 27 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 28 | On the whole , though , there are good chemical reasons for thinking that the most likely forms of life in other parts of the Universe would also be carbon-based , as on Earth . |
| 29 | However , we also saw that there were good computational and psycholinguistic reasons for supposing that the phonemic interpretation of a stretch of sound would often be left ambiguous for some time . |