Example sentences of "good [noun sg] why " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are substantial differences in the way aids are dispensed in the UK and French LFAs and several aspects of this explain in good part why a major nature conservation/agriculture conflict has resulted in the UK uplands but not in France . |
| 2 | So I mean , if Jane , if it 's such a good job why are all these people leaving ? |
| 3 | There was no possible good reason why rule 41 should not encompass those genuinely undecided as to their long term ambitions . |
| 4 | The domestic political stress caused in West Germany by such an influx ( which also of course , further undermined the East German economy , since many were skilled and professional people ) was one very good reason why Bonn was prepared to pour aid into its neighbour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If Shelley reflected the feelings of many of his contemporaries there was good reason why this should have been so . |
| 7 | ‘ I see no good reason why not , ’ |
| 8 | There is good reason why we should not speak ill of the dead but no good reason why we should not think it , if it seems to be necessary . |
| 9 | There is good reason why we should not speak ill of the dead but no good reason why we should not think it , if it seems to be necessary . |
| 10 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 11 | There is hardly ever a good reason why the deal should not be set out in writing , and this may help to avoid future dispute , but you need to check the proposed wording carefully in conjunction with your advisers . |
| 12 | Here again there is no good reason why the debtors should be freed from debts contracted after the first will : for , although the trust clause is in a later document , what it confirms is the content of the first will . |
| 13 | It is likely too that the provision for value had originally been framed in relation to purchase for value , for otherwise there is no good reason why Ulpian should be concerned with fitting other legal relationships into the same pattern as sale . |
| 14 | There is no good reason why so few educationalists sit on company boards . |
| 15 | Maybe there 's no good reason why you should give a bucket of warm sick about what your workmates think or do n't think about you . |
| 16 | Now , could someone give me one good reason why I should bow to a woman who , not long ago , was a junior publishing executive with a past spent as a member of a racy set of upper-class party-lovers ? |
| 17 | It is almost like a little grunt and occurs in sentences but not necessarily when one word is spoken on its own — another good reason why you should always speechread the sentence as a unit , not looking for individual words . |
| 18 | There seems no good reason why women who employ someone to help with their youngsters while they are at work should not get tax relief on the wages they pay . |
| 19 | ‘ There may be a perfectly good reason why he should n't be selected , but logic to him suggests otherwise . |
| 20 | ‘ I can think of no good reason why I should shy from going openly and without having recourse to others . ’ |
| 21 | However necessary it might sometimes be to put down rebellious non-Europeans , there was no good reason why Europeans should fight among themselves over spheres of influence . |
| 22 | Just give me one good reason why you and Charles can not be married at once . ’ |
| 23 | I spared no details — there was no good reason why I should . |
| 24 | If the garden was more exciting than my dwelling , there was a good reason why Alec Reid 's house should have a more lived-in feeling . |
| 25 | If the same system can vary so much between species there is no good reason why different systems should be the same within a species . |
| 26 | This is one good reason why every State should publish all the accident reports it raises — some other airline quite remote from the one in question may avoid a similar disaster if the details of an accident and the necessary corrective action are made available to all who care to take the trouble to read about them . |
| 27 | If we take that ideal seriously there seems no good reason why it should be excluded from an important area of our lives , our relations within and to the workplace . |
| 28 | To the extent that non-governmental bodies perform functions which government would have to perform if they did not , there is no good reason why such bodies should not be subject to judicial review in the same way as a government body performing equivalent functions would be . |
| 29 | This fact provides another good reason why courts should decline to entertain polycentric disputes . |
| 30 | Yet there was no good reason why it should not recover . |