Example sentences of "be [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here too there are reasons for reversing the priority . |
| 2 | If , however , the Chief Inspector decides there are reasons for conducting an investigation in greater depth , he will order an inspector 's investigation to take place . |
| 3 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are reasons for believing that if the above liberal reforms were implemented , they might not significantly reduce the volume of corporate crime . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | However , there are reasons for believing that these are the most appropriate lexicological units . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 10 | But there are reasons for thinking his pleas to the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace plan were sincere . |
| 11 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |
| 12 | Although no direct connection can be shown between the revolt of Gundovald and the conspiracy of 587 , there are reasons for thinking that the two affairs may have been related . |
| 13 | For earlier times , though , there are reasons for doubting certain simulations . |
| 14 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 15 | Consciousness is structured and there are reasons for supposing that this structure differs with the socio-economic situation of the experiencing subject . |
| 16 | OSF/1 on MIPS customers are mostly policy-led companies who want the operating system to come from an independent source , although there are reasons for changing , according to Stone , including loadable drivers for accommodating new graphics options and shared libraries that reduce the size of the applications . |
| 17 | These are reasons for recording rather than simply performing to the class but would n't audio recording do just as well ? |
| 18 | Given these considerations I think Warnock is wrong to claim that there are reasons for saying that the baby saw these things . |
| 19 | Neither does she consider the possibility that there are reasons for doing degrees other than as qualifications for jobs ; therefore humanities degrees are a ‘ waste of time ’ . |
| 20 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 21 | The EC itself has not attached environmental conditions in the cases of Poland and Hungary , but Carlo Ripa di Meana , the EC Environment Commissioner , has insisted that a sum ( still to be agreed ) must be set aside to bring the East 's environment up to scratch and there are proposals for training environmental managers . |
| 22 | But the white man does not believe that cattle are payment for taking someone 's life . ’ |
| 23 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 24 | ‘ Unless a different intention appears , the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer . ’ |
| 25 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 26 | Included in protection are methods for detecting likely hazard events and in warning those likely to be affected . |
| 27 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 28 | There are halls for banqueting up to 3,000 , for small exhibitions , industrial theatre and simultaneous translation . |
| 29 | Recently , the identification of characteristic sequence features in peptides eluted from HLA class I molecules suggested that the relevant antigen might be identifiable by assessing cellular immune responses to peptides containing such motifs among antigens which are candidates for mediating HLA-disease associations . |
| 30 | It will sometimes be the case that , for certain instruction groups , the number of bits required fully to specify an operation and all its associated information is less than the computer word length ; so these groups are using the word inefficiently , and are candidates for occupying only a portion of a word . |