Example sentences of "of [pron] reasons 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | I know that one of his reasons for leaving is that he genuinely wants to be able to spend more time with his family . |
| 12 | His lecture was an outline of his reasons for believing that he was wrong . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That was n't one of his reasons for joining , was it ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this context they are the ground of our reasons for acting . |