Example sentences of "[noun] for doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absurdity of the monopoly was brought to public attention when Cyril Smith MP 's solicitor sought the leave of the High Court to read out an agreed statement in settlement of a libel action , because he considered the fee proposed by counsel for doing this to be ‘ unnecessarily expensive ’ . |
| 2 | Liberty is proposing regulations , including a rule requiring anyone installing cameras to supply the authorities with valid reasons for doing so . |
| 3 | The MacMahon Act only reinforced his reasons for doing so . |
| 4 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 5 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |
| 6 | If part of the deep ecologist 's rationale for saving wilderness is so that future generations of humans can savour the orgiastic blood of the hunt ( as Ortega y Gasset describes the recreational slaughter of wild animals ) , animal liberationists can and should unashamedly applaud the efforts to preserve , but not the reasons for doing so . |
| 7 | Two reasons for doing so . |
| 8 | The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways . |
| 9 | What is wrong in this case is not only the denial of very commonly used and important newspapers but the reasons for doing so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is far from surprising that Mr Llambias stresses the importance of using an intermediary , but his reasons for doing so are cogent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Kevin did n't know why he put it off because the reasons for doing so were always valid . |
| 14 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 15 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 16 | A particularly incisive and economical analysis of the reasons for doing so has been provided by Strawson , and his argument , though by no means the only one of its kind , presents an exceptionally strong case . |
| 17 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 18 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 19 | Well that was one of the reasons for doing |
| 20 | Neither does she consider the possibility that there are reasons for doing degrees other than as qualifications for jobs ; therefore humanities degrees are a ‘ waste of time ’ . |
| 21 | The reasons for doing this may be that the animal maximises its chances of mating with somebody with whom it can have offspring while at the same time minimising the ill-effects of inbreeding . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 23 | In the second part of the chapter we concentrate on manufacturing industry , reporting on the experiences of a number of organizations which have only recently started to make use of temporary workers , and their reasons for doing so . |
| 24 | You will find , unless there are very good reasons for doing otherwise , that here you will find it difficult to manage if you have as many as eight suspects , for no longer can your suspects be mere plaster figures . |
| 25 | It 's easy to become enthusiastic about ideas for using something new , without stopping to think through your reasons for doing it . |
| 26 | Unless there are good and generally agreed reasons for doing otherwise , the rule which readily minimises conflict is simply to decrease each department 's budget by the same percentage . |
| 27 | When you 're presenting plans , stick to the point — two good reasons for doing something are better than ten because your last reason is probably the weakest , so can be attacked and used as an excuse for a refusal . |
| 28 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | For the groups that eschew unconventional behaviour — and there may be tactical as well as principled reasons for doing so — the focus and target of pressure is likely to be the people who make the laws and policies and/or the people who implement them . |