Example sentences of "of [pron] reason for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like gritstone : never did — it does n't fit any of my reasons for enjoying climbing , which is why I ca n't see any reason for not bolting it . |
| 2 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 3 | So I still have n't been in the autumn , so one of my reasons for finishing is , is so I can go on holiday in the autumn . |
| 4 | Ironically , many also gave the lower crime rate in their adopted homeland as one of their reasons for leaving Britain . |
| 5 | He and his wife also enjoy walking and the countryside of the area is one of their reasons for wanting to remain in the North . |
| 6 | However a special resolution required under the section may not be proposed unless it has been recommended by the directors , and there is circulated to members entitled to notice of the meeting a written statement by the directors of their reasons for making the recommendation , the amount to be paid to the company in respect of the proposed issue , and the directors ' justification of that amount . |
| 7 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 8 | As Rabin has stated , the ‘ very essence of arbitrariness is to have one 's status redefined by the state without an adequate explanation of its reasons for doing so . ’ |
| 9 | He said Nicola had not yet talked of her reasons for running away from her farmhouse home near Biddulph , Staffordshire . |
| 10 | That had certainly been part of her reason for slipping away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I know that one of his reasons for leaving is that he genuinely wants to be able to spend more time with his family . |
| 13 | His lecture was an outline of his reasons for believing that he was wrong . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That was n't one of his reasons for joining , was it ? |
| 16 | However , he does use his recollection of the journey over Ratagan , his eyes filled with mountains , to reflect in the Journey generally upon the condition of remoteness as it affects human beings , and thereby touches the core of his reasons for travelling . |
| 17 | However , it does not affect the force of his reasons for saying that all definitions of good in natural or metaphysical terms are wrong headed . |
| 18 | Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But she was guiltily aware that at least part of his reason for staying on the island so long and not returning to England was his hope of one day furthering their relationship . |
| 21 | In this context they are the ground of our reasons for acting . |
| 22 | That the situation was as it was , and hence that certain events did not and certain events did occur , is indeed much of our reason for asserting the conditional statement but not part of the statement . |