Example sentences of "[modal v] for [adj] reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may for some reason go to a Mother and Baby Home for a short period before and after they have the baby , or even go to live with foster parents . |
| 2 | There may for some reason be a substantial delay between the date of the agreement and the grant of the lease during which time the tenant may wish to assign its interest in it . |
| 3 | is an adult but must for bureaucratic reasons be treated as a child ; |
| 4 | It does not follow that because a police officer reasonably suspects a person of having committed an arrestable offence , that the person should for that reason alone be arrested . |
| 5 | The Committee is quoting the Heilbron Report , and appears to be saying that if the public thinks that a particular law covers certain activities and in fact it does cover these activities , then it should for that reason continue to cover only these activities . |
| 6 | So far we have considered primacy either as a manifestation of corporate tradition , or as a factor in Anselm 's relations with the pope , the archbishop of York , and other interested parties who might for one reason or another support or oppose Anselm 's claims . |
| 7 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 8 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 9 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 10 | These physical extremities are important for NATO bases , and can for various reasons prove attractive for tourists . |