Example sentences of "reason [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is one reason why the DSS has never paid this subsidy to single parent families . |
| 9 | But the main reason why the tide of Thatcherism seemed to ebb after the 1987 election was that its main claim to popular support , the apparent revival of the economy and the stimulus to productive growth , was beginning to lose credibility . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The second reason why the homosexual is involved with difference is because , contrary to what the foregoing theory implies , she or he has , in historical actuality , embraced both cultural and racial difference . |
| 12 | The reason why the present government nevertheless eventually sanctioned this book is that it mainly covers the war years , when the secret services were inevitably more widely tolerated than at other times . |
| 13 | Just one reason why the mortality rate for under-fours is eight times higher than our own . |
| 14 | The ramshackle Whitley Council negotiating machinery is the other reason why the ambulance workers have lost out . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 18 | That being so , there was no reason why the words of section 29(3) should not be given their natural meaning and so read , the power was clearly all-embracing , subject only to the qualification that the Home Secretary could not lawfully require broadcasters to broadcast matter involving them in a breach of their statutory duty . |
| 19 | Obviously this is the reason why the people concerned were all so visible to each other . |
| 20 | And that was one reason why the United States was willing to aid European countries . |
| 21 | ‘ We can see no other reason why the Government should introduce this bill less than 24 hours before the house rises for Christmas and that they are fundamentally ashamed of it . ’ |
| 22 | It 's the reason why The Smiths are more powerful as a pop as art . |
| 23 | Nor is there any reason why the state should tell firms how to attract and keep good staff in a country where qualified labour can be hard to find . |
| 24 | What American banks lack is credit-worthy borrowers in the right places — an added reason why the rules that prevent America 's banks operating nationwide should be scrapped . |
| 25 | Chernobyl is a big reason why the Ukraine and Belorussia , in 1986 docile republics dominated by Brezhnevite Communists , now have mass strikes and increasingly pugnacious independence movements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 28 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there was no reason why the health service should devote unnecessary resources to these jobs . |
| 30 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |