Example sentences of "no reason [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 2 | When he was n't asleep , Frederick had been friendly enough , though he often laughed loudly for no reason they could see and said things there was no answer to , like , ‘ Wotcha , young Carrie , how 's tricks ? ’ |
| 3 | He 's not very worried about the law yet , because there 's no reason they should get on to him for a while . |
| 4 | ‘ Voluntary groups are providing the services already and there 's no reason they should not continue to do so on behalf of the SSD , he says . |
| 5 | This writer , for no reason which is apparent , began his year on Michaelmas Day , 29 September , in advance of the Historical year . |
| 6 | Jonathan Rickford , British Telecom 's director of government relations , said in a telephone briefing from Washington , ‘ There has to be a little give and take … there 's no reason we ca n't resolve the whole thing . ’ |
| 7 | The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing . |
| 8 | We have dates in the diary , Karen 's got them booked , erm , I see no reason we should n't . |
| 9 | As a sudden mutation there is no reason whatever why it should not crop up anywhere , and the small island between Ireland and England is as likely a place for it as anywhere else . |
| 10 | But to conclude from this that the quality of his faith lay in the fact that he trusted God for no reason whatever is quite illegitimate . |
| 11 | Taking the biographical information in conjunction with the documents , one can see no reason whatever to doubt that he succeeded Hizir Bey on the latter 's death in 863/1459 , but the date of his leaving the office can not be so certainly fixed . |
| 12 | For no reason whatever . |
| 13 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 14 | In this respect , a document purporting to be a sale of hire purchase agreements was construed by Eve J at first instance in Re George Inglefield [ 1933 ] Ch 1 , as a charge on book debts whereas , in the Court of Appeal ( at p27 ) , it was held to be a sale : " [ There is ] no reason whatever for attempting to drag the transaction within the operation of the section [ s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 ] by calling it something which in truth it is not . " |
| 15 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 16 | There is no reason whatsoever why our explanation of jet-lag as a consequence of a mismatching between the body clock and the new external environment should go unquestioned . |
| 17 | In short , there is no reason whatsoever under the rules of the Socialist International why the Labour Party should n't put up candidates against the SDLP in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | However , she saw no reason whatsoever to refuse the Paris invitation if it could be put off till she was ready to go . |
| 19 | It can not be too often repeated that there is no reason whatsoever why humanity should be made to believe that its religion must have origins in the literature and man-made traditions of the remote past . |
| 20 | Which proves my point about teachers ; even the best of them can go completely over the top , for no reason whatsoever . |
| 21 | I see no reason whatsoever , to take the more organised Filane Emirates and Yoruba chieftainates as examples , why some of the more advanced communities should not enjoy many of the advantages of self-government |
| 22 | The outcome satisfies egos and may prevent trouble , but there is no reason whatsoever why the compromise solution should actually fit the problem . |
| 23 | There s no reason whatsoever we should n't be thinking in terms of the championship anyway . |
| 24 | There is no reason whatsoever why those doors should be left open after five o'clock . |
| 25 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 26 | Looping the loop is a perfectly normal manoeuvere for this sort of aircraft and there 's no reason whatsoever why it should n't be demonstrated to the public |
| 27 | There 's no reason your Margaret ca n't stop when he 's on nights . |
| 28 | The consultant emphasised if she followed his instructions implicitly there was no reason she should not return to full health . |
| 29 | Not that she was afraid of him ; there was no reason she should be . |
| 30 | You 've got no police record and there 's no reason you should n't go back and live with ordinary people . |