Example sentences of "no reason why " in BNC.

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1 While Mr Kawawa gave many reasons why they should take over the newspaper , he gave no reasons why they did not .
2 There are no reasons why all groups ca n't mix , except where the sheer numbers of users are dangerous .
3 So in Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 495 , for example , a clause was held unreasonable , although Dillon J listed no reasons why this was so .
4 There 's no reason why they should n't be able to develop their own dishes .
5 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 .
6 Although rarely used , there is no reason why modified forearm blocks should n't prove effective in competition .
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’
11 There is no reason why York could not provide a site like other neighbouring authorities .
12 But there was no reason why this imbalance could not be sustained indefinitely .
13 ‘ There is no reason why Mr Natwar Singh should leave , but we have some internal difficulties , ’ he confessed .
14 However , while returning home with the Cup might not quite be an occasion for breaking out the ticker tape and launching into an orgy of street parties , it would be nice to see England do well , and there is no reason why they should not .
15 This , he said , would clear the way for an interim repayment to the depositors , and although there were some small administration problems , he saw no reason why this should not be done in the ‘ near future ’ .
16 Subject to those two safegaurds there was no reason why the decision of an inferior tribunal with a limited jurisdiction and a strictly limited function to perform should not be capable of creating an issue estoppel .
17 Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever .
18 Of course there is no reason why the takeover of a football club should arouse greater interest than controversial manoeuvres in any other area of commerical life but this ignores the status Manchester United have acquired so the negotiations were bound to provoke serious misgivings .
19 The Foreign Office view is that as the Angolan government has been in direct contact with Unita , there is no reason why other countries should not use their influence .
20 When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China .
21 If an agent does a good job with the first one , and builds a successful relationship with the manager , there is no reason why that agent ca n't deal with all of a manager 's acts .
22 If an aspiring agent does n't go to college or university , there is no reason why he or she ca n't apply to an agency and come in as a very junior person to work their way up .
23 In fact , there is no reason why ( e.g. ) homosexuals should not afford accountability and care to their partners , in the course of either a long relationship or a very short one .
24 ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’
25 There is no reason in the nature of the technology itself why men should not gather fruits , berries , and roots , and consequently no reason why they should spend so much less time in productive activities .
26 The implication in all the sexually discriminatory immigration laws ( continued long after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 ) is that women are slaves and chattels in their communities , and the government sees no reason why it should treat them as anything else .
27 He had never had a dog and now that one of his daughters was married and the other a student at drama school , he saw no reason why he should ever give one house-room .
28 No reason why it should be a local man , is there ? ’
29 I see no reason why this could not apply to different sizes of swimming pool . ’
30 But there is no reason why we should not tell stories of English boys who leave the village and make good in the city — why rural drama should not be found and filmed among the mountains of Wales and moors of Yorkshire .
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