Example sentences of "[art] reason for [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rather , an essential starting-point must be to identify what variety of this right is being invoked , and what are the reasons for believing that the right in question ought at all costs to be maintained .
2 In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers .
3 Reasons for wishing there were such things as rights , are not rights ; — a reason for wishing that a certain right were established , is not that right — want is not supply — hunger is not bread …
4 As a result of this ‘ myth ’ , however , the very fact of variable spelling in an Early Middle English document becomes in itself a reason for concluding that the scribe was Anglo-Norman and therefore that his spelling can be corrected by editors and ignored by historical commentators and dialectologists .
5 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 .
6 But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it .
7 If , on the other hand , we insist on treating internally compromised statutes as the acts of a single distinct moral agent , then we can condemn them as unprincipled , and we then have a reason for arguing that no official should contribute to his state 's unprincipled acts .
8 Even if it were valid , I can see no reason for supposing that the argument relies upon it .
9 ( Care is required over this last point because we have no reason for supposing that the programs unc are in any sense " simpler " than he complete program .
10 The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this .
11 But the fact that the coin caused the mechanism to operate is no reason for saying that the coin caused the bar to come out .
12 In such circumstances there is every reason for believing that the representative producer will not raise output at all and hence that y will not deviate from y * ; .
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