Example sentences of "for [v-ing] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers .
2 Elizabeth Young and Simone Tramontana for suggesting that the two bystanders were the same height before one of them shot the fall and all the people who spotted breakouts on the way down .
3 While the church dominated governing body of King 's College , London , did not object to Lyell 's geology , it sacked the theologian F. D. Maurice for suggesting that the indescribable torture of the damned might not go on for ever .
4 ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’
5 The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this .
6 There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education .
7 This is another reason for believing that the best regressions take place under hypnosis .
8 In such circumstances there is every reason for believing that the representative producer will not raise output at all and hence that y will not deviate from y * ; .
9 There are reasons for believing that the official UK unemployment figures , measured as the number of people claiming benefits , may understate the actual number of people unemployed .
10 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 .
11 Even during the recorded period , however , there are persuasive reasons for believing that the actual quantity of reserves used for intervention was at least $650m-$700m .
12 Can he be blamed for believing that the only things which exist are himself and the table ?
13 We will instead provide reasons for believing that the mental lexicon consists of separate sub-systems : one containing semantic information , another containing phonological information , and a third orthographic information .
14 Intimate searches must be authorised by an officer of at least the rank of superintendent who , under section 55 , must have reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may have concealed on him anything which he could and might use to cause physical injury to himself or others or that he might have concealed a class A drug .
15 In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient .
16 Finally , there are very good grounds for believing that the rising crime wave is real — material conditions for large sections of the community have deteriorated markedly .
17 ( a ) He can arrest where he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an arrestable offence has been committed and he has reasonable grounds for suspecting the person to be guilty of the offence .
18 This breaching of the formally ‘ arm's-length ’ or contractual relationship has tended to undermine the supposed managerial independence of the enterprise ; in the graphic words of Johnson ( 1978 : 128 ) , there were ‘ grounds for suspecting that the public corporations were becoming something like tenants in the great ramshackle mansion of central government administration ’ .
19 There are many reasons for supposing that the small family is here to stay .
20 In fact , there are good reasons for supposing that the classic authoritarians of the study by Adorno et al .
21 However , we also saw that there were good computational and psycholinguistic reasons for supposing that the phonemic interpretation of a stretch of sound would often be left ambiguous for some time .
22 There is a strong case for holding that no political authority can be legitimate unless it is also a de facto authority .
23 I can see no basis in principle for holding that a municipal corporation , empowered by statute to sue in its corporate name , can not maintain an action for libel .
24 Reasons for wishing there were such things as rights , are not rights ; — a reason for wishing that a certain right were established , is not that right — want is not supply — hunger is not bread …
25 Canon law , however , gave grounds for supporting that an incompetent king , ‘ rex inutilis ’ , could be required to abdicate , and the articles against the king , which may have been drawn up by the Bishop of Winchester , allege that his ‘ uselessness ’ had brought damage and destruction to the Church , people and realm of England .
26 The letter f is simply a shorthand for indicating that a furnished tenancy will be determined by the elements within the bracket .
27 F. Austin ( Leyton ) Ltd v East [ 1961 ] Crim LR 119 is authority for saying that a latent defect amounting to a dangerous condition is not a defence but would be good mitigation .
28 There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 .
29 It is encouraging that the primary visual areas of both rats and monkeys receive input from the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus but we should be aware of some circularity here since one of the criteria used for saying that the lateral geniculate nuclei in the two groups are homologous is that they both project to primary visual cortex !
30 The inquiry 's report , however , observed that " no foundation exists for alleging that the Prime Minister and his family were using co-operative societies like their personal account " , and also exonerated Hussain .
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