Example sentences of "his reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murder brought Raskolnikov to see that he did n't believe his reasons for committing it . |
| 2 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 3 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 4 | Throughout Prisoner Genet again insists that his reasons for his identifications across race and culture were incorrigibly personal . |
| 5 | Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style . |
| 6 | The MacMahon Act only reinforced his reasons for doing so . |
| 7 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 8 | De Niro does n't seem particularly keen to discuss his reasons for wanting to run a restaurant , and will only say that it 's been a vague dream of his for a while . |
| 9 | Khrushchev explicitly stated to me that one of his reasons for suspending tests was because he had studied the effect of the CND on the British public . |
| 10 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 11 | Now it is true that Weismann was mistaken in thinking that different cells receive different genes , but his reasons for thinking so are illuminating . |
| 12 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 13 | Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples . |
| 14 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 15 | The animosity towards Docherty resurfaced years later on a memorable episode of the BBC chat show Wogan , when a clearly drunken George Best outlined his reasons for leaving Old Trafford . |
| 16 | I wrote again , nevertheless , disputing his decision and his reasons for it . |
| 17 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 18 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 19 | His reasons for adopting Indirect Rule were never , in fact , made very explicit , though it appears that scarcity of administrative manpower , usually considered the determining factor , was not of major importance . |
| 20 | His reasons for this were simple . |
| 21 | I 'd have loved to have built a 10-year career around him , but I fully understand his reasons for going . |
| 22 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 23 | It is far from surprising that Mr Llambias stresses the importance of using an intermediary , but his reasons for doing so are cogent . |
| 24 | His reasons for no longer enjoying it had nothing to do with his accident , now well past him , or with the failure of the Brabham venture ; it was within himself . |
| 25 | Ever since her birth he had been ultra-anxious without expressing , even to himself alone , his reasons for this . |
| 26 | His reasons for wishing to avoid becoming archbishop were based , not on ceremonies whether correct or incorrect , still less on his own desires , strong though these were against acceptance . |
| 27 | While he was there , he got an invitation from Archbishop Hugh to go to Lyons , and from Lyons he wrote to the pope explaining his reasons for leaving England . |
| 28 | The elderly Fürst zu Fürstenberg has retained the last for unstated reasons ( just as he has also not revealed his reasons for selling ) , but perhaps because of its profound significance to the Romantic conception of Germany and , of course , to Wagner 's Ring cycle . |
| 29 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 30 | His lecture was an outline of his reasons for believing that he was wrong . |