Example sentences of "have reason to " 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 | In time of crisis , the West will have reason to be grateful for its defences . |
| 9 | In my family you shall have reason to be merry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Aleskerov seems to have reason to be sure Azerbaijan can receive western investment and fight the war if it chooses . |
| 12 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 13 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |
| 14 | Leconte had reason to be pleased . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Clare 's contemporaries in the wetlands had reason to be concerned more for their own survival than that of moles and willow trees . |
| 21 | Nutty had reason to be optimistic about the swimming , for Jazz had improved phenomenally . |
| 22 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |
| 23 | Yet again he had reason to be grateful that no-one in Vienna argued with a uniform . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Tom had reason to be wary . |
| 27 | Many other men and organisations had reason to be proud of the parts they had played in the drama . |
| 28 | Several local people had reason to be proud of the rescues they effected before the arrival of the rescue services . |
| 29 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |
| 30 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |