Example sentences of "reasons for believe [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 2 | Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m . |
| 3 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 4 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 5 | There are several reasons for believing that the answer is a resounding Yes . |
| 6 | There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed . |
| 7 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 8 | In addition to these informal clinical observations , there are several other , more scientific , reasons for believing that schizophrenia and affective psychosis are not as distinct from each other as was once thought . |
| 9 | There are reasons for believing that if the above liberal reforms were implemented , they might not significantly reduce the volume of corporate crime . |
| 10 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 11 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 12 | There are two reasons for believing that this is n't true . |
| 13 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 14 | His lecture was an outline of his reasons for believing that he was wrong . |
| 15 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 16 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 17 | This is one of the reasons why fertility is expected to rise a little in official projections , to 2.0 ( OPCS 1989a ) , although there are reasons for believing that these high expectations will not be matched by performance ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 18 | There are good family economic reasons for believing that fertility will not become high . |
| 19 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 20 | However , there are reasons for believing that these are the most appropriate lexicological units . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There are more cogent reasons for believing that ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ is not really a goddess but the heroine Europa . |
| 23 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 24 | We will instead provide reasons for believing that the mental lexicon consists of separate sub-systems : one containing semantic information , another containing phonological information , and a third orthographic information . |
| 25 | However , there are good reasons for believing that the interpretation of discourse in more natural situations does involve the integration of related pieces of information in memory . |
| 26 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 27 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 28 | As will be seen in my concluding remarks , there are some reasons for believing that the era of a true psychoanalytic psychology of the superego is about to dawn . |
| 29 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
| 30 | It must fit our practice , and we have discovered important reasons for believing that conventionalism does not . |