Example sentences of "[pron] be reasons for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are reasons for believing that if the above liberal reforms were implemented , they might not significantly reduce the volume of corporate crime . |
| 3 | This is one of the reasons why fertility is expected to rise a little in official projections , to 2.0 ( OPCS 1989a ) , although there are reasons for believing that these high expectations will not be matched by performance ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 4 | However , there are reasons for believing that these are the most appropriate lexicological units . |
| 5 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But there are reasons for thinking his pleas to the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace plan were sincere . |
| 8 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 11 | Here too there are reasons for reversing the priority . |
| 12 | For earlier times , though , there are reasons for doubting certain simulations . |
| 13 | If , however , the Chief Inspector decides there are reasons for conducting an investigation in greater depth , he will order an inspector 's investigation to take place . |
| 14 | Neither does she consider the possibility that there are reasons for doing degrees other than as qualifications for jobs ; therefore humanities degrees are a ‘ waste of time ’ . |
| 15 | Given these considerations I think Warnock is wrong to claim that there are reasons for saying that the baby saw these things . |
| 16 | OSF/1 on MIPS customers are mostly policy-led companies who want the operating system to come from an independent source , although there are reasons for changing , according to Stone , including loadable drivers for accommodating new graphics options and shared libraries that reduce the size of the applications . |
| 17 | Consciousness is structured and there are reasons for supposing that this structure differs with the socio-economic situation of the experiencing subject . |
| 18 | This power existed where , as the statute provided , it appeared to him that there were reasons for doubting whether the trade union members , in taking part in industrial action , were acting in accordance with their own wishes . |
| 19 | The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this . |
| 20 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |