Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] good reason " in BNC.

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1 Faith is ‘ a firm assent of the mind ’ , for which there should be good reason .
2 ‘ By so doing , you could place yourself in danger , my lady — that should be good reason enough . ’
3 Never does it occur to him that there might be good reason to dispute his proposals .
4 Otherwise , there may be good reasons why he has not advanced , perhaps because he has been ill or over-tired .
5 In other jobs , there may be good reasons why employees have a right , under the contract , to be given work to do .
6 This is not to deny that there may be good reasons why members of religious minorities should have sought a career in science and why they excelled in particular areas .
7 There may be good reasons for it being as it is , but it could be different , and is different in other countries .
8 If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children .
9 But there may be good reasons every now and then for not re-issuing er , even though it 's agreed what the will be .
10 Occasionally there are situations where two techniques can be used , and there may be good reason to apply both so that they provide supporting evidence for each other ( for example , see p. 134 for the use of TL and uranium series dating at Pontnewydd Cave ) .
11 Sufficient has been said to suggest that there may be good reason to utilize intergovernmental grants and that , in order to choose the appropriate grant , it is necessary to consider both the objective and the likely response of the local authority to the grant .
12 Apart from the fact that a fully satisfactory solution is available without the need to assume that truncated clauses lurk beneath predicate qualifiers , there would be good reasons for discounting the possibility , even if one did not initially accept the intensional pattern of ( 15 ) as valid .
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