Example sentences of "[pron] have reason to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there is no other kind of bread , inevitably if I do as I have reason to and buy a loaf I will buy one or the other . |
| 2 | If I appear , let us say , disenchanted , it is because I have reason to be . |
| 3 | You 've reason to be grateful to me . |
| 4 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 5 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |
| 6 | Rain was no more vague than she had reason to be . |
| 7 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |
| 8 | Commissioners were appointed on either side to work out an agreed formula which would cover differences in legal systems , taxation discrepancies , the coinages — which were still quite distinct — and above all the religious rights of Episcopalians , Presbyterians , Cameronians and others who had reason to be wary of the Church of England . |
| 9 | ‘ Looking at that sea , you have reason to be scared . ’ |
| 10 | If I can talk about one particular council , Gloucestsershire , feel they have reason to be aggrieved with the Government . |
| 11 | The findings of these investigations , together with the Chief Constable 's proposed course of action , are passed on to a key monitoring and supervisory body , the Police Complaints Authority ( PCA ) , which may , if it has reason to be dissatisfied , overturn the Chief Constable 's decision . |
| 12 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |
| 13 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 14 | Yet again he had reason to be grateful that no-one in Vienna argued with a uniform . |
| 15 | That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless . |
| 16 | Resolved that , from the report of the Committee consisting of the Earl of Morton , Chairman , & c this meeting is perfectly satisfied with the Character & Conduct of the Professor Mr Vial and is of opinion that the conduct of the Secretary Mr Huntingford is highly culpable in having propagated reports injurious to the Professor Mr Vial after he had reason to be satisfied the [ sic ] were groundless . ’ |
| 17 | He had reason to be in that camp … |
| 18 | He had reason to be frightened . |
| 19 | He looked scared to death , and he had reason to be for he was doubly identified by both of us . |
| 20 | He had reason to be proud he thought , as he gazed through his car windscreen at the line of traffic ahead . |