Example sentences of "reason to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 2 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |
| 3 | She has good reason to be pleased . |
| 4 | Leconte had reason to be pleased . |
| 5 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 6 | There was no reason to be afraid ; on the contrary , he was delighted . |
| 7 | But , however rapidly the filmmakers who built their reputations during the war may have disillusioned the critics , with their narrow concept of what the nation 's filmmakers should be doing , British filmmakers had reason to be confident in 1945 . |
| 8 | Liz has good reason to be enthusiastic . |
| 9 | The historian Golo Mann wrote 20 years ago that Germany 's post-war recovery took place against ‘ a historical background of which Germans had reason to be profoundly ashamed . |
| 10 | The historian Golo Mann wrote 20 years ago that Germany 's post-war recovery took place against ‘ a historical background of which Germans had reason to be profoundly ashamed . |
| 11 | ‘ Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he has given them … whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue . ’ |
| 12 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 13 | There is real reason to be afraid for Liam 's safety ? ’ |
| 14 | Constrained resources will inevitably act as a brake on research and new developments , but there are other factors which work against this , and give us reason to be encouraged . |
| 15 | Take the case of the thirteenth Earl Ferrers , a man to whom all drinking folk have reason to be grateful . |
| 16 | Additionally , as the stallions had n't seen or heard the other behaving like a stallion — calling and courting mares , and threatening rivals — they had no particular reason to be suspicious of their travelling companion . |
| 17 | As for the wild Irish , they had every reason to be wild , for most of them were O'Connors and the site of Galway had belonged to them before De Burgo came . |
| 18 | THE National Art Collection Fund has every reason to be pleased with itself at having given £250,000 of the £10 million needed to acquire Lord Cholmondeley 's Holbein , Lady with a Pet Squirrel , for the National Gallery . |
| 19 | Alas , there is little reason to be optimistic that this will develop into an influential enough movement to provoke radical change . |
| 20 | There is no reason to be sitting in bed , but I never thought I 'd be on the go so quickly . |
| 21 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 22 | It is not ( like the rain in the example of my going to London ) just another reason to be added to the others , a reason to stand alongside the others when one reckons which way is better supported by reason . |
| 23 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 24 | He had every reason to be happy . |
| 25 | I am in the possession of a number of splendid suits , kindly passed on to me over the years by Lord Darlington himself , and by various guests who have stayed in this house and had reason to be pleased with the standard of service here . |
| 26 | In adult life they were confident that the eleven-plus had separated them from ‘ the dim ones ’ and saw no reason to be troubled about the ‘ intellectually inferior ’ working-class boys and girls who had left school at the age of fifteen or sixteen . |
| 27 | Students of cancer had more reason to be interested in chromatin and its role in cell division , but chemical approaches to cancer were predominantly concerned with molecules which could be identified at the time , i.e. with molecular weights under 1000 . |
| 28 | The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence . |
| 29 | Without a record or any other reason to be in print , Morrissey was to be heard advocating the necessary use of political violence in support of CND and in his approval of the Animal Liberation Front 's great Mars Bar hoax . |
| 30 | Clare 's contemporaries in the wetlands had reason to be concerned more for their own survival than that of moles and willow trees . |