Example sentences of "reason [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has consistently regarded that duty as covering not only cases where there is affirmative reason to support that the appellant is innocent , but also cases of quite another description .
2 Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants .
3 ( c ) Sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony. ( d ) The actor is aided or abetted by one or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists : ( i ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated or physically helpless .
4 ( g ) The actor causes personal injury to the victim , and the actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated , or physically helpless .
5 ( c ) Sexual contact occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony. ( d ) The actor is aided or abetted by one or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists : ( i ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated or physically helpless .
6 ( g ) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and the actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated or physically helpless .
7 ( c ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated , or physically helpless .
8 ( b ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated , or physically helpless .
9 Nor is there any reason to assume that the system would have adjusted smoothly to the onset of overaccumulation had the oil crisis not occurred .
10 We have little reason to assume that the response of solitary lesions would be fundamentally different .
11 Second , if leadership in God 's economy is not given on a basis of superiority then there is no reason to assume that the husband is the best equipped to make a given decision .
12 The fee income is beginning to build up again and we have no reason to assume that the offices will not revert to their historic profitability — apart from the fact that we 've lost insolvency and our Salisbury office . ’
13 A priori , there is no reason to expect that the tax bill per person will be the same in both regions .
14 ‘ If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , it is a defence for him to prove — ( a ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour , or ( b ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting , or ( c ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . ’
15 ‘ If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , it is a defence for him to prove — ( a ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour , or ( b ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting , or ( c ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . ’
16 All of these defences apply only where the person is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , and all of the participants have the defence that they had no reason to suspect that the material was threatening , abusive or insulting .
17 There is a defence that the distributor , displayer or player who had no intention to stir up racial hatred was ignorant of , and had no reason to suspect that the contents of the item in question were threatening , abusive or insulting , and the section does not apply where the showing or playing of the recording is solely for the purpose of inclusion in a cable programme service .
18 There is no reason to believe that the incomers brought any large amount of capital with them , although some may have had help at the start from their families .
19 The decision in Tameside may be contrasted with ASLEF ( No. 2 ) where the trade union 's complaint that the minister had no reason to believe that the members were not behind their leaders was not supported by the court .
20 But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor .
21 There is , however , every reason to believe that the insect head arose by the coalescence of a number of body segments and a non-segmental anteriorly-placed acron homologous with the Annelid prostomium .
22 However , there is no reason to believe that the sample is unrepresentative in any way .
23 ( 6 ) If the offer is conditional ( which it invariably is ) the offeror should have every reason to believe that the conditions will be satisfied if he is to comply with the terms of Rule 2.5(a). ( 7 ) The board of the target company is entitled to be satisfied that the offeror is , or will be , in a position to implement the offer in full ( Rule 1(c) ) .
24 Possibly goods may have been smuggled out without paying duty , although this last should not be exaggerated , because there is no reason to believe that the level of smuggling varied markedly from one period to another , and because with bulk commodities the possible gains were small and the risk of penalties was high ( 66 , pp.21–5 ) .
25 In the case of innocent infringement ( if the defendant did not know and had no reason to believe that the semiconductor design right subsisted in the article ) damages are not available although other remedies may be , such as an account of profits .
26 There is every reason to believe that the recession is coming to an end .
27 There is certainly no reason to believe that the electricity industry generally wasted investment resources in the manner of , for example , the nationalised railway industry in the same period , which ( far from making even the minimal return required by the public sector ) incurred mounting annual losses , yet persisted in uneconomic investment programmes .
28 Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population .
29 So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) .
30 The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process .
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