Example sentences of "[ex0] [is] reason [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) .
2 Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw .
3 There is reason to suppose that neither of his collections of legal opinions ( digesta and responsa ) was published during his lifetime , and that they first appeared after the death of Ulpian , in the epi-classical period .
4 While neutral language may be less overtly offensive than the kind it replaces , there is reason to suppose that it is often ineffective , in the sense that it does not really bring women into people 's mental landscape at all .
5 But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things .
6 There is reason to think that the recession will be relatively shallow and short-lived — Lamont , December 12 , 1990 .
7 Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used .
8 Yet there is reason to think that the cover-up was deliberated ‘ Indy 's Rameaugate .
9 Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners .
10 A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others .
11 There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked .
12 The clear , harsh voice again : ‘ There is reason to believe that an application for bail would be allowed . ’
13 In Britain , Canada , Israel , and the US , for example , there is reason to believe that professional levels of social work education should be placing a higher emphasis on training social workers to function in social service systems that use a broad range of personnel .
14 That all of them were good citizens and honourable men will be readily conceded from a consideration of the very constitution of the Society and from a perusal of the Bye-Laws , by which the Society is governed and there is reason to believe that they were also practitioners of the healing art .
15 The next step would be to offer thanks when there is reason to believe that the ‘ god ’ , or its more mundane forerunner had fulfilled the expectations of the supplicant .
16 There is reason to believe that young children admitted to care have greater medical needs than their peers who are not in care ; and that a greater proportion are handicapped .
17 The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) .
18 As a result , the numbers of further education teachers undertaking these courses grew from 795 in 1975 to 1,207 in 1981 and there is reason to believe that the demand for places exceeds the present supply .
19 However , there is reason to believe that with scientific explanations , the optimal approach would involve discussions between groups of children , so long as the children start with differing but partially relevant ideas .
20 In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " .
21 And although elite mobility is likely to decline , ‘ there is reason to believe that access to positions in the political elite will remain less restricted in character than is typically the case in the capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , p. 242 ) .
22 This would seem to strengthen the case against monopoly , for now there is reason to believe that a movement towards monopoly could lead to higher costs through the creation of X-inefficiency .
23 Though no eye-witness survived , there is reason to believe that it all began with some Bavarian soldiers brewing up coffee — in a delightfully careless South German way — on upturned cordite cases , using explosive scooped out of hand grenades as fuel !
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