Example sentences of "had any reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament is to distribute the burden of taxation in an equitable way , but it does not follow that the citizens had any reason to pay tax before the passing of the ( just ) tax law . |
| 2 | I am sure there were also ‘ pretty severe philippics ’ against some other authors and critics , especially the Snowbound school — though I have never ( as far as I know ) had any reason for personal animus against them . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 4 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 5 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 6 | No one had any reason to suspect a second . ’ |
| 7 | Why do you think Reni said that no one had any reason to suspect a second killing ? ’ |
| 8 | Similar questions were asked about involvement in narcotics or whether they had any criminal record , or if they had any reason to suspect they could become vulnerable to coercion or blackmail . |
| 9 | President Carlos Menem of Argentina announced on Sept. 19 that his country was to withdraw from the NAM because the movement " no longer had any reason to exist " . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) It is hereby declared that a person shall not be entitled to rely on the defence provided by subsection ( 1 ) above by reason of his reliance on information supplied by another , unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information , having regard in particular ( a ) to the steps which he took , and those which might reasonably have been taken , for the purpose of verifying the information ; and ( b ) to whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information . |
| 11 | No one had any reason to suspect . |