Example sentences of "reason for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing here said denies that one reason for holding voluntary undertakings to be binding is to enable people to encourage reliance by committing themselves to a course of action . |
| 2 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | However , it is interesting and important to consider whether there might be a theoretical justification for Miller 's view , relatively independent of the present habits of social scientists : a reason for holding that social scientific explanations should satisfy a necessity constraint of the kind Miller describes . |
| 4 | The point serves as a corrective to behaviourist tendencies in general , and therefore to Behaviouralism in International Relations , since it undermines a main reason for holding that science must stick to observable behaviour . |
| 5 | ’ This creates a much stronger argument , but what interests me here is Chisholm 's reason for holding that ( b ) does not follow from ( a ) . |
| 6 | In Amoco Lord Cross said the fact that a covenantor had obtained and would continue to enjoy benefits under the agreement which he claimed to be unenforceable was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 7 | It all depends on who the heads belong to , what they are talking about and whether we in the audience have a reason for listening to them . |
| 8 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 9 | I was well into my holiday before I learnt Margaret 's real reason for looking so elegant that afternoon . |
| 10 | The Flying Burrito Brothers ' ‘ Send Me Back Home ’ adds familiarity , links them to their roots and gives singer Mark Olson a reason for looking like Neil Young circa ‘ 73 . |
| 11 | Another reason for looking at women 's attitudes to housework comes from surveys of gender differences in the areas of education and employment over the last few decades . |
| 12 | Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ . |
| 13 | That is one reason for looking at a certain objection , that our conception of such connection is not fundamental to , or pervasive in , a certain body of knowledge and speculation , one which must have some pride of place in any informed view of reality . |
| 14 | Anyone born on February 29 has a special reason for looking forward to Leap Years . |
| 15 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 16 | Andrew Blaikie , 17 , on right , an aviation enthusiast , has a lot to grin about , and a double reason for looking forward to the coming year , writes ALAN DRON . |
| 17 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 18 | This is another reason for standardising the rudder movement first , but it is not relevant to gliders with T-tails where no rudder blanketing can occur . |
| 19 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 20 | Well , maybe it would be a reason for bringing his marriage forward . |
| 21 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 22 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 23 | A big reason for bringing him was so he would not call Tod Richardson on the telephone and inform him I was coming . |
| 24 | The whole br reason for bringing the scheme forward in the programme was associated with the waste management plant and it was n't er er a scheme which would have achieved that priority in its own right . |
| 25 | The reason for bringing forward this policy was because it , as Mr Williamson said , is the District Councils felt there was a need to fill a strategic er a gap in strategic guidance . |
| 26 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 27 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 28 | If the reason for leaving was ill-health refer to it briefly , explain it was a temporary situation and emphasize your present fitness and ability to take on the demands of the new job . |
| 29 | Mr Hakim 's main reason for leaving was that he felt Robson Rhodes ' drive to concentrate on upmarket accounts meant that he was losing personal contact with many of his smaller clients . |
| 30 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |