Example sentences of "reason for wanting " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You all had good reason for wanting Henry Phipps dead . ’ |
| 2 | She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’ |
| 3 | The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country . |
| 4 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 5 | Koch has a special reason for wanting to beat Dennis Conner for the right to defend the America 's Cup . |
| 6 | It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited . |
| 7 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 8 | Another reason for wanting to retain the inclusion of a relatively poor inner-city area was that it is in such areas that the problems of service provision to dementia sufferers are often at their most acute . |
| 9 | As we saw in chapter 12 , there is another quite different intellectual reason for wanting to control for a third factor when assessing the relationship between two variables . |
| 10 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 11 | No one says that YOU have to , and if your main reason for wanting a close friendship is to be like everyone else then it wo n't be much of a friendship anyway ! |
| 12 | What is your real reason for wanting to go out with that person ? |
| 13 | She added : ‘ Caroline may have another reason for wanting to stay in the area . |
| 14 | Fred has given me no good reason for wanting us to break up our marriage like this . ’ |
| 15 | However , if there is an overriding reason for wanting to publish group accounts ( as statutory accounts ) without a cash flow statement , there may be a way . |
| 16 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |
| 17 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 18 | The possibility of witnessing someone 's true nature is the main reason for wanting to see music performed live . ’ |
| 19 | But staying meant dying , and now the painter had an added reason for wanting to live . |
| 20 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 21 | Duncan had his own reason for wanting to visit the cathedral . |
| 22 | Vernon had good reason for wanting to keep Hunsdon at Berwick , since the governor owed him money ; and his assessment of the benefits and drawbacks was not unbiased . |
| 23 | Second : give people a reason for wanting to be successful . |
| 24 | One also needs to give people a reason for wanting to be successful . |
| 25 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 26 | I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes . |
| 27 | He was dressed like you , and — ’ I was anxious to express this politely ‘ — he had the same reason for wanting to borrow a file . ’ |
| 28 | Madeleine was his sole reason for wanting to return to England — although naturally he 'd love to see Alice if she happened to be in London . |
| 29 | Before I show it to you , however , I want to know your reason for wanting to see it . ’ |
| 30 | I hope this is your only reason for wanting to accuse him ? ’ |