Example sentences of "[pron] reason for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 2 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 3 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 4 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 5 | Indeed my reasons for not finding gambling ‘ attractive ’ are not the most admirable either . |
| 6 | He considered the biographer had entirely misunderstood the period and wanted to know my reasons for doing the book and my qualifications for attempting it . |
| 7 | After a troubled night I went to Government House next morning and said to HE that I was convinced that this would be a disastrous step and that if it was decided to take it I must resign on the spot and announce in public my reasons for doing so . |
| 8 | Returning to my shopping list , my reasons for my choice of equipment are as follows : |
| 9 | My reasons for distinguishing the Petralona and Steinheim crania included their contrasting facial morphologies and very large size difference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I wonder how many climbers today empathise with my reasons for climbing ? |
| 12 | My reasons for eh urging the eh panel to do this are that many areas of our church are in deprived areas . |
| 13 | I have however found it difficult to subscribe to the opinion preferred by the majority of your Lordships that the appeal should be dismissed because the decision of a visitor is not susceptible to judicial review for an error of law , and had prepared a judgment setting out in summary my reasons for this difficulty . |
| 14 | I have my reasons for asking . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 17 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 19 | My reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 20 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 21 | I 'll give my reasons for voting against this budget . |
| 22 | My reason for dyeing , rather than painting these floats is because they will take more shotting . |
| 23 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 24 | And that 's my reason for going public now , to advise , WARN OFF , discourage other runners from falling into the same trap as me . |
| 25 | My reason for not signing the petition was quite clear : when I had spoken out the previous December not one other international , nor the IAC , had raised a peep when our sport was being vilified . |
| 26 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 27 | And I 've got my reason for that . |
| 28 | Down to my reason for writing . |
| 29 | My reason for writing was to let you know the most important thing I 've learned — never admit defeat ! |
| 30 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |