Example sentences of "reason for give " in BNC.
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| 1 | When passing on to them family news , which they are usually anxious to hear , remember that the time for leaning on them with your more serious troubles is now past ; so unless there is some inescapable reason for giving them bad news , try to protect them from it , for they will probably be worrying about it in isolation until your next visit . |
| 2 | The second , more important , reason for giving summer 1979 's figures is that interest rates are ( at the time of writing ) higher than they have ever been . |
| 3 | If it could be shown , for instance , that we know sufficient about the deliberation of legislators , political and judicial , to be assured , for instance , that they were better informed than we are then this might be a reason for giving weight to the content of the law in deciding what is morally right or wrong in areas where we felt that we lacked sufficient knowledge . |
| 4 | This being so , I can not accept what would be Mill 's reason for giving an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ |
| 5 | ( This is one reason for giving more attention to economic movements and social structure than our predecessors would have done . ) |
| 6 | ( The reason for giving the present proof will appear in exercise 3.3.5 . ) |
| 7 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 8 | It is not a reason for giving to the word ‘ appropriate ’ a meaning narrower than it would naturally bear . |
| 9 | This was an additional reason for giving supremacy to the Constitution and for introducing certain extra safeguards into it . |
| 10 | ‘ No doubt you 'd have revelled in the opportunity to play Mr Wonderful on the slopes if the roads had n't been blocked , but frankly I did n't see any reason for giving you the chance to do the same here . |
| 11 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 12 | Finally , it can be said that the public interest and public policy have played an especially important part as a vehicle for providing a reason for giving redress in those cases in which the parties are not contractually bound . |
| 13 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 14 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 15 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |