Example sentences of "[prep] reason for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LFS asks questions about reasons for taking a temporary job , offering four responses : " because the contract included a period of training " , " because a permanent job could not be found " , " because a permanent job was not wanted " and " other/no reason " . |
| 2 | Furthermore , even if agricultural jobs are available , they may not be attractive to those who live locally ; Cowie and Giles ( 1957 ) found that 40 per cent of a sample of out-migrants gave low pay and long hours of farm work as reasons for deciding to leave their home areas . |
| 3 | To be sure , if a person accepts the legitimacy of an authority then its instructions are accepted by him as reasons for conforming action . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 5 | By the time President Reagan came to office on 20 January 1981 he had plenty of reasons for wishing to emulate Henry II . |
| 6 | Subsequent chapters of this book will provide us with plenty of reasons for doubting that claim . |
| 7 | There are a number of reasons for expecting the prices of index futures to adjust faster than the spot price , i.e. the market index . |
| 8 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 9 | As [ 15 ] and [ 16 ] show , there are all sorts of reasons for constraining the interpretation of another speaker 's utterance . |
| 10 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ There were lots of reasons for choosing that race rather than a higher profile one . |
| 12 | Having deuterium in the electrolyte clearly was a useful strategy ; as for the lithium , Fleischmann said to me : ‘ There are a lot of reasons for choosing this . |
| 13 | There may be a number of reasons for keeping a personal diary . |
| 14 | There are all sorts of reasons for giving the less direct answer : B may want to establish that the fact that the reading was not done was not due to laziness . |
| 15 | Thus his Declaration of Reasons for Invading focused on the violations of the Test Act , the creation of the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , the suspension of the Bishop of London , the affair of Magdalen College , the dispensing and suspending powers , and the attack on the corporations in 1687 – 8 . |
| 16 | There are plenty of reasons for supposing that the merger trend will gain vigour . |
| 17 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 18 | ‘ I kept trying to find all sorts of reasons for doing so . |
| 19 | There are , though , a host of reasons for resisting any kind of equation between mental representations and mental pictures ; and all of these derive from one fundamental reason . |
| 20 | The two kinds of reason for saying that they do not matter need to be kept distinct . |
| 21 | Although Myxine shows a single paired branchial opening , another Recent hagfish ( Eptatretus ) has a series of separate openings and this has cast doubt on reasons for associating hagfishes and heterostracans . |
| 22 | Interviews — paying attention to reasons for leaving previous jobs , frequent changes of residence , and job-related medical history . |
| 23 | Some explanation for the high concentration of young persons in the temporary workforce are discussed in the following paragraphs where we look at reasons for taking temporary jobs . |
| 24 | We looked at reasons for installing a network , fitting and configuring the network interface card ( NIC ) , managing precious memory , and testing the installation . |
| 25 | We could next look at the numbers of designers who have left the company over the previous 12 months by reasons for leaving ( figure 10 ) . |