Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pos pn] reasons for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal supported this view , Lord Justice Purchas saying that it was ‘ clearly established ’ that the circumstances in which the court would intervene by judicial review were ‘ severely circumscribed ’ , though remitting the cases to the local authority for them to state correctly their reasons for determining that it was reasonable to expect the applicants to continue to occupy their settled accommodation in Bangladesh . |
| 3 | ’ magistrates are already required to state publicly their reasons for granting bail in serious cases . |
| 4 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 5 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's easy to become enthusiastic about ideas for using something new , without stopping to think through your reasons for doing it . |
| 8 | She composed herself and outlined briefly her reasons for being on the island and Fernando listened , occasionally nodding . |
| 9 | It was called " Reunion by Destruction " and in it Eliot set out his reasons for opposing the idea of uniting the Anglican , Presbyterian , Congregationalist and Methodist churches . |
| 10 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |