Example sentences of "reasons [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 2 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 3 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 4 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 5 | The male does sometimes mate with one of the young female helpers but this , for reasons we do not understand , never seems to result in pregnancy . |
| 6 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 7 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 8 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |