Example sentences of "a reason for [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not seem to me a reason for appointing a chairman ; it might be a reason for appointing some sort of official ; though in fact it would not be a sound reason for appointing anyone . |
| 2 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 3 | However , it is interesting and important to consider whether there might be a theoretical justification for Miller 's view , relatively independent of the present habits of social scientists : a reason for holding that social scientific explanations should satisfy a necessity constraint of the kind Miller describes . |
| 4 | I shall offer in chapter 7 a reason for rejecting all forms of foundationalism . |
| 5 | Okay there must be a reason for doing this , but er I 'm more concerned with getting oil out North Sea . |