Example sentences of "reason for [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 2 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 3 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 4 | My initial reasons for believing in the men 's innocence were ones of which the law takes no cognisance at all . |
| 5 | The dominating tendency of mental life , and perhaps of nervous life in general , is the effort to reduce , to keep constant or to remove internal tension due to stimuli ( the ‘ Nirvana Principle ’ , to borrow a term from Barbara Low ) — a tendency which finds expression in the pleasure principle ; and our recognition of that fact is one of our strongest reasons for believing in the existence of the death instincts . |
| 6 | Vice Chair , I have given the Council , I believe , many good reasons for electing to the office of Lord Mayor for this year . |
| 7 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 8 | Often they have understandable ( albeit incorrect ) reasons for acting in the way they did . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 10 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 11 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 12 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 13 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 14 | Commenting on his reasons for selling off the chain he founded in 1978 , Mr Weatherburn said that last year had been ‘ very difficult ’ , not just because of the stampede into remaindering by other companies ( see also Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) . |
| 15 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |
| 16 | Georgina was my main reason for leaving in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , I believe that he has another reason for clinging to the A level concept . |
| 18 | But she was guiltily aware that at least part of his reason for staying on the island so long and not returning to England was his hope of one day furthering their relationship . |
| 19 | Quite clearly in the history of detective fiction its writers began to feel that the mere producing of one yet more ingenious murder was not enough , that perhaps setting a slightly less ingenious murder in some interesting area would give readers an extra reason for staying with the book . |
| 20 | While the stated reason for moving to the resort was the desire to bring up one 's children in a healthy place , the less readily acknowledged reason was to ‘ better oneself ’ . |
| 21 | In the High Court and county courts express provision is made allowing any party to apply to the court for different directions , a provision which should not be overlooked , particularly given the new provisions for early exchange of witness statements , if there is good reason for departing from the normal rule ( see RSC Ord 25 , r8(3) , CCR Ord 17 , r11(4) ) . |
| 22 | A property which was neither helping — as a qualifier forming part of the same noun phrase — to identify that entity , nor ascribable to any entity within the sentence , and which was not simply adverbially qualifying the verb , would have no convincing reason for appearing in the sentence at all . |
| 23 | But I think the more important reason for talking about the Ministry of the New Church , or the Ministry of the Church is because of the erm developing needs and the developing thoughts and ideas which are actually additions which are the , the crucial area where ministry takes place . |
| 24 | ( d ) We have made explicit the reason for focusing on the last novel — we chose it because it acts as a summary of Tey 's work , and so is an appropriate topic for a conclusion . |
| 25 | This is another reason for travelling with the dog adequately restrained , rather than allowing it to put its head out of the window , like this Newfoundland . |
| 26 | If the by-election results were repeated throughout the district , the number of Labour councillors on Wear Valley Council would be reduced from eight to four with the Liberals increasing from 28 to 32 scarcely a reason for rejoicing in the Labour ranks . |
| 27 | Occasionally there is a strong reason for weaning from the breast as the mother may want to return to work , or may need to be separated from the child for some reason . |
| 28 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , ‘ the only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so 's you can steal His gold teeth . ’ |
| 29 | It is not a reason for giving to the word ‘ appropriate ’ a meaning narrower than it would naturally bear . |
| 30 | Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other . |