Example sentences of "a reason [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He played the game of Murder in the dark through the vast rooms of the bishop 's vast palace and told his nonconformist father that at last he found a reason why bishops should live in such large houses . |
| 3 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 4 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 5 | It may be a reason why the law should be altered by statute ; it does not prevent it from being law , or affect its operation , as long as no alteration in the law is made by statute . |
| 6 | I ca n't think of a reason why the Czar or his advisers should want to murder British agents . |
| 7 | The main problem had been finding a reason why anyone should want to visit Vienna at present . |
| 8 | This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing . |
| 9 | A reason why a pattern of vertical stripes might have been selected as a social bonding device is that attachment takes place most strongly during periods of grooming ( right ) and this involves a zebra bending its neck creating vertical folds in the skin ( below ) ; the bold stripes could have evolved to augment and elaborate these dark lines . |
| 10 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 11 | It can be regarded as a principle apart from morality on which morality can be based since it provides a reason why it might be worthwhile for a man to act morally . |
| 12 | In one way I regret it , which is a reason why I think I should have started playing professionally later on . |
| 13 | After all , if the images were created by her subconscious mind , there must be a reason why it chose to create certain images and not others . |
| 14 | There was no name appended to the all-points , nor a reason why the man was wanted . |
| 15 | ‘ She is not the sort to lie about something like this and I ca n't think of a reason why she would , ’ said Christopher Grenside , 85 . |
| 16 | In a Survey of Significant Accounting Policies on Football Clubs , Touche Ross says that this is a reason why many clubs show big losses or severely depressed profit levels . |
| 17 | ‘ There could be a reason why you should be more careful now . |
| 18 | Can you think of a reason why this is a good idea ? |
| 19 | There was a reason why they had foregone the privilege of having a singing canary in the dock . |
| 20 | Well over a year since ‘ Yerself Is Steam ’ was first released , the appeal of Mercury Rev — a reason why , dammit — is still as hard to pinpoint . |
| 21 | A system is a set of interacting parts which has meaning as a whole because it is possible to define a purpose — a reason why the parts are seen to be related to the whole and a justification for the concept of the whole ( Singleton , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | This definition , however , does not enable us to say which functions are public functions , but only to give a reason why certain functions are classified as public . |
| 23 | Needless to say , this is no reason why feminists should cease their demands ( quite the reverse ) , but it is a reason why the demand for abolition will never be met in isolation ; and even if it were it would be pointless overall , since further anomalies would be created and the burden of injustice simply shifted to other women . |
| 24 | But nevertheless that 's human nature and perhaps it 's also a reason why life should not stand still , whatever progress we make both in housing and in quality of housing and the quality of life , once people are used to that , to that they expect more and this is what progress , what forward thinking is all about . |
| 25 | This is strictly illogical : the growth of Athenian power could never be a reason why the ‘ libations ’ had been broken . |
| 26 | That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene . |
| 27 | " I know why , I think it 's because now there 's a reason why I must . |
| 28 | This may well be a reason why previous diets have failed . |
| 29 | There 's got to be a reason why I 'm playing you bar nine as well as bar ten . |
| 30 | This is not a reason why district ethics committees should yield to pressure to abdicate their responsibilities to local citizens . |