Example sentences of "reason [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good defence lawyer would now be armed with all the mitigating circumstances of your life : mental records , character witnesses , … any reason why your life should be spared . |
| 2 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 3 | And the fact that you already have a good instinct for acting will probably have been the main reason why you passed your entrance audition for drama school . |
| 4 | Within this statement , which is rhetorical for some but deadly serious for others within the GAA , lies precisely the reason why the protestants of the North are so opposed to the development of Gaelic games and seek to oppose their extension if and when they can . |
| 5 | It is also interesting to note that the issue of land inheritance was a key reason why the Irish population voted ‘ no ’ in the referendum on divorce in 1986 . |
| 6 | Part of the reason why Roman catholics go to their own schools is because they believe they are obliged to do so . |
| 7 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 8 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 9 | The reason why I have a soft spot for this notebook , he wrote . |
| 10 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 11 | There 's no reason why they should n't be able to develop their own dishes . |
| 12 | She knew of at least one reason why each of these six women would have been glad to see Handsome Henry dead . |
| 13 | Too much sun , for example helps trigger the premature bolting to seed of some crops in summer , which is one reason why later sowings of radishes , salads or spinach are much better situated in a cool , shady bed . |
| 14 | This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research . |
| 15 | It may also be the reason why , in its forty-year history , the Police Staff College has never achieved any real academic status ; for , as Lewis ( ibid. 183 ) also points out : |
| 16 | If you have done enough of the right type of training , there is no reason why you should n't give a good account of yourself . |
| 17 | Although rarely used , there is no reason why modified forearm blocks should n't prove effective in competition . |
| 18 | From the standpoint of constructivism , the reason why associationist-representational theories so spectacularly fail to capture the essence of thought is that they ignore the fact that every thought , like every action , has , at some level , a purpose . |
| 19 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 20 | KEITH Thomas 's article on warm beer ( September ) highlights the main reason why I so rarely attend beer festivals these days . |
| 21 | The most common reason why so many families come to such a harsh decision is because their dog has behaviour problems they ca n't control . |
| 22 | For Raskolnikov is incorrigibly patrician and rare at heart ( which is one reason why the Epilogue does not convince ) , even if I have overstressed the Hamletish side to him . |
| 23 | On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible . |
| 24 | The point has been frequently made that there is no necessary reason why ‘ dog ’ should mean the familiar , faithful , barking , domestic quadruped , which in other languages , gets referred to as chien , Hund , cane , etc . |
| 25 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 26 | There is no reason why American poetry , or poetry from other anglophone literatures , should not be read , given a minimal amount of culture and contextual instruction ( which may also be needed , of course , in the reading of English poems ) . |
| 27 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
| 28 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 29 | One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention . |
| 30 | There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’ |