Example sentences of "reason [Wh adv] [noun] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was certainly no reason why cancer should ever return , and the dreaded secondary was forever expelled once one had started the prescribed path . |
| 2 | Mr Moran sees no reason why Liverpool should not function normally in Mr Souness 's absence . |
| 3 | John Yearley his coach says there 's no reason why Carl ca n't achieve great things and they 're looking towards a medal at the next olympics |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 6 | That , needless to say , is one reason why America can not ignore the veto-wielding Soviet Union . |
| 7 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 8 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 9 | There was no reason why Kenamun should ever have known about his meeting with Surere . |
| 10 | There is no good reason why Britain should not have emulated the achievements of the Scandinavian countries who , profoundly influenced by their social democratic tradition , have set standards which in recent years our country has fallen well below . |
| 11 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 12 | Although this stuff is low-level , if instructions are correctly coded and subtitled , there 's no reason why software ca n't be implemented across standardised , low-level mechanisms . |
| 13 | Although this stuff is low-level , if instructions are correctly coded and subtitled , there 's no reason why software ca n't be ported across standardised , low-level mechanisms . |
| 14 | There seems no good reason why herbs should not be used at home to cure many minor ills , in the same way that aspirin are useful for headaches , toothache , etc. , and the day may not be far away when a book of standard prescriptions using herbs is universally available . |
| 15 | But , let me say by way of rejoinder , there is no necessary reason why things should not come about the other way round — with the personality regression preceding the growth in power of the state — and that even if this is a functional , rather than causal , relationship , it is nevertheless a significant one . |
| 16 | Mr Geoff Dossetter , the Federation 's spokesman said : ‘ It is a buyer 's market out there and there is no reason why women should not be good at selling cars . ’ |
| 17 | Again it may be said that though prophets and priests in the bible are male , there is no reason why women should not be ordained or exercise leadership today . |
| 18 | Yet there is no reason why Government can not enter into contracts with privatized companies whether privatization is on a regional basis or takes place in some other way . |
| 19 | There is no reason why groups can not meet after Lent ! |
| 20 | And there was no reason why NoS could not be like the Sun and still talk to the left . |
| 21 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 22 | Consequently there appears no reason why regulations could not be included in such an agreement which prevent or restrict odour emissions , particularly as the 1971 Act provides that a local planning authority may take into account the ‘ improvement of the physical environment ’ . |
| 23 | There is no reason why Edinburgh should not develop its own range of street furniture designed by some of our young talents . |
| 24 | A second reason why grammarians should not simply ignore social deixis is that , while the study of English may suffer no obvious penalties for such neglect , there is scarcely a single sentence of , for example , Japanese , Javanese or Korean , that can be properly described from a strictly linguistic point of view without an analysis of social deixis . |
| 25 | There is no reason why York could not provide a site like other neighbouring authorities . |
| 26 | They consider that there is no reason why parties should not expect fair procedures to be followed , and that the public law decision Ridge v Baldwin [ 1964 ] AC 40 applies the rules of natural justice to any person making a decision about individuals . |
| 27 | There is no reason why schools should not include within their plans for the 1990s the full range of managerial and support roles which emerged from PNP during the 1980s . |
| 28 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 29 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 30 | There is no constitutional or legal reason why Charles should not become king with an estranged wife . |