Example sentences of "have reason [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority is in a better position to achieve ( if its legitimacy is acknowledged ) what the individual has reason to but is in no position to achieve . |
| 2 | The Council of Europe nevertheless survived and within its limited competence has reason to be proud of the work it has done since its inception . |
| 3 | While waiting for these elements to become commercially viable partly accounts for the delay , IBM also has reason to be cautious about allowing its mainframe customers to run existing transaction processing applications on smaller — and far cheaper — RS/6000s . |
| 4 | Sally has reason to be proud of the part where it counts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | yeah — Sheff Utd fans has reason to be satisfied . |
| 7 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |
| 8 | If battle fatigue sets in , Mr Biedenkopf may have reason for optimism . |
| 9 | In time of crisis , the West will have reason to be grateful for its defences . |
| 10 | In my family you shall have reason to be merry . |
| 11 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 12 | Mr Aleskerov seems to have reason to be sure Azerbaijan can receive western investment and fight the war if it chooses . |
| 13 | She had reason on her side . |
| 14 | Joseph had reason for his concern , for Commanding General Sherman , currently visiting the park , had intensified his military campaign . |
| 15 | Here I had reason for hope . |
| 16 | If Anwar now perhaps had reason for entertaining minor reservations about Changez ( though Changez seemed delighted by Anwar , and laughed at everything he said even when it was serious ) , this could be nothing compared to Jamila 's antipathy . |
| 17 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 18 | Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence . |
| 19 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 20 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 21 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |
| 22 | Leconte had reason to be pleased . |
| 23 | But , however rapidly the filmmakers who built their reputations during the war may have disillusioned the critics , with their narrow concept of what the nation 's filmmakers should be doing , British filmmakers had reason to be confident in 1945 . |
| 24 | The historian Golo Mann wrote 20 years ago that Germany 's post-war recovery took place against ‘ a historical background of which Germans had reason to be profoundly ashamed . |
| 25 | The historian Golo Mann wrote 20 years ago that Germany 's post-war recovery took place against ‘ a historical background of which Germans had reason to be profoundly ashamed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I am in the possession of a number of splendid suits , kindly passed on to me over the years by Lord Darlington himself , and by various guests who have stayed in this house and had reason to be pleased with the standard of service here . |
| 28 | Clare 's contemporaries in the wetlands had reason to be concerned more for their own survival than that of moles and willow trees . |
| 29 | Nutty had reason to be optimistic about the swimming , for Jazz had improved phenomenally . |
| 30 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |