Example sentences of "had any reason " in BNC.

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1 At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British .
2 For the devout Christian , there has been no need to reconcile fact and faith , history and theology , simply because he has never had any reason to believe that a distinction between them might exist .
3 Nor had he had any reason to complain about the security measures surrounding visitors to the base .
4 As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt .
5 The labels which Darwin had attached to them did not say where the specimens were found ; he simply had not had any reason at the time to think that geography was important .
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