Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] reasons " in BNC.

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1 In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule .
2 But there are other reasons for farmers switching to autumn cereals than a desire to curb nitrate pollution , and this is likely to be the limit of what the ‘ voluntary approach ’ can achieve .
3 Such a reason can be a perfectly valid reason , but only if there are other reasons which , in accord with the normal justification thesis , support the authority of that person .
4 There are other reasons for resistance to change .
5 Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose .
6 There are other reasons for the predominance of women carers , even after retirement .
7 Of course , there are other reasons . ’
8 There are other reasons for submitting appeals .
9 ( There are other reasons why complicated molecules based on silicon are less likely to occur , but these are beyond our present scope . )
10 Unfortunately , there are other reasons to make us believe that there are alternate universes .
11 There are other reasons for owls not hunting in the rain — it hampers both vision and hearing , and limits vole activity , too , so there 's less prey even for those owls that do choose to venture out .
12 There are other reasons such as commonality of components and , of course , shortage of imagination which lead to most design and development being a progressive iterative process .
13 And there are other reasons for near-term caution .
14 There are other reasons .
15 There are other reasons for using the phonological code , either before or after word recognition has been obtained , and some which go towards explaining its extensive use include : 1 allowing the generation of a memory of what has been read , 2 imposing an intonation upon the print in the service of comprehension , 3 imposing an external control on the reader 's attention to help convert the two-dimensional spatial display of text into a form appreciated by our temporally one-dimensional conscious processes .
16 There are other reasons as well , things like peace and tranquillity er time to reflect er and yeah there are other motivations as well which you , if you like , are kind of negative .
17 There are other reasons why babies might be susceptible , and there are a list of things that you may well know about from babies you 're looking after .
18 Yet there are other reasons too .
19 That his choice is contrary to what is to be expected of the vast majority of adults is only relevant if there are other reasons for doubting his capacity to decide .
20 There are other reasons for belonging to a choir .
21 There are other reasons why women are unable to build up sufficient National Insurance contributions and are thereby denied access to unemployment benefit .
22 There are other reasons why capitalism needs to exploit the Third World , according to Lenin .
23 It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here .
24 From a health service perspective , there are other reasons for concern .
25 There are other reasons why Indian authors prefer to publish abroad .
26 In the case of the more pragmatically orientated studies , there are other reasons why linguists have preferred to study languages which are very different from each other .
27 There are other reasons to support initiatives for using the computer as a means of delivering subject-specific information .
28 Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons .
29 We have looked at three broad economic reasons why individual firms may become involved in selling overseas , but there are other reasons that are more situation specific .
30 All this is not meant as a massive , unqualified slight against the Caribbean family , for there are understandable reasons for its failure , amongst them fractured relationships and the prime necessities of having to feed , clothe and shelter their children .
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