Example sentences of "reasons for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 2 | On the whole , though , there are good chemical reasons for thinking that the most likely forms of life in other parts of the Universe would also be carbon-based , as on Earth . |
| 3 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 4 | There are however immediate reasons for thinking that this stance is imperceptive . |
| 5 | There are various reasons for thinking that this might be the case . |
| 6 | Nevertheless there are some reasons for thinking that we are acquainted with the ‘ I ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 9 | But , as we have seen , there are good reasons for thinking that such countervailing forces do indeed exist , principally in the archaic superego structures which , thanks to neoteny and the neurophysiological changes of the latency period , have become natural to man . |
| 10 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's reflected in mammalian societies like deer and er there are good reasons for thinking that it also applies to er human beings . |
| 12 | On the contrary , law-giving was an important part of Christian kingship , and there are consequently good reasons for thinking that some aspects of Wulfstan 's activities would have been welcome to him , for he was certainly concerned to appear the Christian king ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | Although no direct connection can be shown between the revolt of Gundovald and the conspiracy of 587 , there are reasons for thinking that the two affairs may have been related . |
| 14 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 15 | In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers . |
| 16 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 17 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 18 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 19 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 20 | There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes . |
| 21 | There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed . |
| 22 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 23 | In addition to these informal clinical observations , there are several other , more scientific , reasons for believing that schizophrenia and affective psychosis are not as distinct from each other as was once thought . |
| 24 | There are reasons for believing that if the above liberal reforms were implemented , they might not significantly reduce the volume of corporate crime . |
| 25 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 26 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 27 | There are two reasons for believing that this is n't true . |
| 28 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 29 | His lecture was an outline of his reasons for believing that he was wrong . |
| 30 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |