Example sentences of "reasons [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the other children had to wear shoes , and to Martha 's contrary seven-year-old mind the reasons Nana advanced for insisting on shoes were not satisfactory . |
| 2 | Whatever initial reasons people had for being attracted to Ian Paisley as a politician , the main reason for their support was their commitment to the principles he enunciated . |
| 3 | The reasons people gave for not using the form of credit ( very few were actually refused it , by lenders ) were rarely concerned specifically with cost — they were generally things like ‘ changed my mind ’ or ‘ thought of a better method ’ . |
| 4 | The reasons Moore gives for thinking that there can not be organic wholes are not very compelling . |
| 5 | However , one of the main reasons Petrey gives for his admiration of speech act theory is its superiority to cognitive accounts , so it is odd that he never spells out where this superiority lies . |
| 6 | The reasons women have for concern about fitness and health are often multiply overdetermined . |