Example sentences of "may [verb] for [adj] reasons " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council may demur for two reasons . |
| 2 | This may occur for various reasons ; the suspect may have died or be below the age of criminal responsibility , the victim may not wish to press charges or a witness may be unwilling , or unable , to give evidence or a person already in detention after conviction admits to further offences . |
| 3 | This may happen for many reasons beside business failure — for example , simple bad luck in the shape of injury , illness or death to someone who is vital to the business 's continuing success . |
| 4 | An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition . |
| 5 | the amount of your personal allowances may change for various reasons ; |
| 6 | Drills may fail for several reasons . |
| 7 | The nature and modifications of the prey assemblages also may differ for similar reasons . |
| 8 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |