Example sentences of "and [adj] reasons for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Franco had powerful personal , professional and political reasons for wanting to avoid the immediate capture of Madrid at the beginning of September 1936 . |
| 2 | Considerable ingenuity may be required to discover non-racial criteria for racial discrimination and non-racial reasons for criticizing other races . |
| 3 | Within the context of current agricultural policies there are sound economic and social reasons for abandoning farming altogether over large areas of the uplands and using the land for other purposes which would both be profitable and create employment . |
| 4 | I think there are practical and philosophical reasons for acting now . |
| 5 | If , as indicated above , there are paramount safety and environmental reasons for addressing the traffic problem in residential areas , then it should not be forgotten that there are social arguments too . |
| 6 | Encouraged by the views of our solicitor , David Cooper of Gouldens , Robert Carnwath , QC appeared on SAVE 's behalf seeking to quash Ridley 's decision on the grounds that he gave insufficient and unclear reasons for granting consent . |
| 7 | There were thus political and ideological reasons for promoting this student tide , not just economic ones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Where God has given us sure and sufficient reasons for believing or the possibility of profound understanding in our believing , it is perverse to insist on having less than what he offers . |
| 10 | A person may have sure and sufficient reasons for coming to believe , but he will not always have similar substantiation in every field at every moment . |