Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] for [adj] reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government grants to local authorities may be justified for two reasons . |
| 2 | This may be done for rhetorical reasons and is a common ploy in politics . |
| 3 | Cassettes and other things may be purchased for multiple reasons — perhaps usually they are . |
| 4 | The lack of any faster dissociation species from this large footprint does not necessarily mean that each of the 3 available sites have long dissociation times , but that binding to site 3 may be excluded for steric reasons as well . |
| 5 | The examples in ( 8 ) are representative : ( 8 ) the visiting scientists are nuclear farmers who will qualify are arable the expert was meteorological Ascriptive adjectives on the other hand may freely occur predicatively ( although it is possible that in some cases an ascriptive adjective may be excluded for different reasons ) . |