"explanation for having" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to explain the reason for owning something, or to explain why something was done in the past. Example: I needed a better job to support my family, so I have an explanation for having moved overseas.
Kashner offers no particular explanation for having chosen 2004 as the moment to return to the events of 1976 -- there's no anniversary, no sudden reconciliation.
And reminiscent of Gillian Taylforth's explanation for having been caught in a lay-by in a compromising position with a gentleman friend.
The song has universal appeal and has been interpreted in numerous ways, including an explanation for having cancer, according to a girl's posting on the band's bulletin board on their Web site.
By way of apologetic explanation for having scuttled at the last minute the original plan for me to pick her up at home, she mentions a "long-ago rule that my husband and I have that no one come to the house".
"I wish we had a good answer for this," Dr. Sperry said, "but there is no logical explanation for having vaults filled with human remains and caskets dumped in the dirt and bodies piled on top and on top of each other.
But the sentence I found is different, almost an apology or explanation for having got herself into such trouble; she is seeking comfort and support in simple, short but meaningful words".
Eventually, at the end of my school years, I searched online for any explanations for having a fear of vomit and realized I was, to a degree, emetophobic.
Eventually, at the end of my school years, I searched online for any explanations for having a fear of vomit and realised I was, to a degree, emetophobic.
Although we find this hypothesis to be the most likely, some alternative explanations for having many robustness QTL do exist.
But I think the deeper explanation for what has happened has economic roots.
He had an explanation for what had possessed him to lose it after all: booze.
