Example sentences of "reason [prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the reason for resorting to war had traditionally been to achieve territorial conquests , to obtain markets and raw materials , or to overthrow leaders of whom one did not approve , then the events of the First World War offered a corrective . |
| 2 | If the reason for travelling to work in the past was to get one 's hands on the work being done , then in the future , as many people 's work will be to deal primarily with information , the information can travel cheaply down the cables to the worker at home . |
| 3 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 4 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 5 | There is another important reason for attending to theory : it needs to be shared with pupils . |