Example sentences of "reason for [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth adding , as something of an aside , that the experimental result just described not only gives reasons for preferring the associative account but also seems to demand an explanation in terms of acquired equivalence rather than acquired distinctiveness . |
| 2 | Secondly , the fiction/concession theory could have supplied an image of the company as separate and distinct from its shareholders which would also have supported the institution of limited liability , but there were strong reasons for preferring the natural-entity model of the company . |
| 3 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 5 | There are other reasons for using the phonological code , either before or after word recognition has been obtained , and some which go towards explaining its extensive use include : 1 allowing the generation of a memory of what has been read , 2 imposing an intonation upon the print in the service of comprehension , 3 imposing an external control on the reader 's attention to help convert the two-dimensional spatial display of text into a form appreciated by our temporally one-dimensional conscious processes . |
| 6 | If the Conservatives dismissed the British Union of Fascists without too much concern — and most could see no good political reasons for embracing the fascist faith — they could not dismiss the threat of European fascism so easily , and attempted to accommodate it instead . |
| 7 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 8 | reasons for taking the general SVQ |
| 9 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 10 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 11 | There were sound technical reasons for keeping the regular cast no smaller than four . |
| 12 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 13 | Since we are going to discover other reasons for rejecting the tripartite definition , we have no reason to pursue this point here . |
| 14 | This simplifying assumption may turn out to be incorrect — future psycholinguistic research may provide evidence that different lexicons are involved in the perception and production of language , or that different lexicons are involved in the processing of spoken and written language — but at present there are no good reasons for rejecting the simplifying assumption of a single mental lexicon . |
| 15 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 16 | The main reason for fishing the middle line of the river today is that with a head wind it is the safest distance for me to be able to loosefeed easily . |
| 17 | argument because the real reason for opposing the new clause is that the Government do not believe that private sector operations should be reviewed by any consumer body or consultative committee . |
| 18 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 19 | She was too plain , and too shy , to bring out into society ; but that , as Dinah told herself , was no reason for allowing the young woman to idle her days away in the Hampstead house . |
| 20 | The stock exchange 's ostensible reason for stopping the grey market was that investors did not have enough information about the Zeneca issue for trading to be ‘ fair ’ . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , as even the impecunious Liberal Democrats have now acknowledged , that 's also a reason for taking the whole business of advertising seriously . |
| 22 | There was , however , one overriding reason for taking the conventional approach : much of the existing literature on women 's domestic roles draws attention to social class differences in women 's satisfaction with domesticity ; middle-class women are supposedly more dissatisfied than working-class women . |
| 23 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 24 | Dick Hern , who announced the decision yesterday , would not elaborate on the reason for choosing the easier option of the Champion Stakes , but Willie Carson , Nashwan 's rider , has said he would be loathe to try the horse at Longchamp again . |
| 25 | The reason for choosing the last phrase first is that there is less likelihood of the intonation being distorted . |
| 26 | The politicization of issues and even of policy-making structures remained considerable : one reason for uniting the postal and telegraph administrations in 1878 was to swamp the allegedly Bonapartist ‘ telegraphist ’ personnel ( 3000 employees ) among the 27,000 postal employees ; often of humble social origins , the latter contained ardent supporters of a republic that assured their social advancement . |
| 27 | That the situation was as it was , and hence that certain events did not and certain events did occur , is indeed much of our reason for asserting the conditional statement but not part of the statement . |
| 28 | That could not be our reason for asserting the given conditional , whatever else is . |
| 29 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | Once again the Preface provides a useful commentary by the author on his previous works and the reason for promoting the current one . |