He did not burn them, because someone might come in who wanted to smoke, and though he might abridge his own liberty, yet, as smoking was not a sin, there was no reason why he should be hard on other people.
This was pressed upon Bunyan as a reason why he should not hold meetings for religious exercises, but rely upon his more private opportunities of exhorting his neighbours.
And, as I said, there is reason why we should do this; he standeth for us.
But no; there is no reason why I should suffer the punishment of another's fault.
The whole thing, they thought, must be voluntary, and they did not see any reason why, if it were left to the kindness and good intentions of the landowner, there should be any land question at all.
Paying for things vicariously, there is no reason why he should stint himself.
There's no reason whyhe can't be here; we've got plenty of room.
There is no reason why I shouldn't say--whatever there is to say, I suppose.
There's no reason why we shouldn't get the cottage trade down at the Neck, and all along shore.
After the most accurate and exact of my reasonings, I can give no reason why I should assent to it; and feel nothing but a strong propensity to consider objects strongly in that view, under which they appear to me.
But what may suffice entirely to destroy this whimsical system is, that it leaves us under the same difficulty to give a reason why truth is virtuous and falshood vicious, as to account for the merit or turpitude of any other action.
It will be incumbent on those, who affirm that memory produces entirely our personal identity, to give a reason why we cm thus extend our identity beyond our memory.
There's no reason why we shouldn't be in it by Thanksgiving.
But that is no reason why I should not thank you, and I do thank you, for offering.
There's no reason why we shouldn't talk it over quietly; for I know you will think I'm right.
But that is no reason why you should say 'P's and Q's,' darling.
That is no reason why I should be insulted and indicted and trampled under foot," snarled Skinner all in one breath.
Along with the facts the true reason why he was imprisoned will probably come out.
I don't think he even knew the old squire; and there is no reason why he should go to the funeral.
Is that a reason why I should not be interested in your welfare?
But that's no reason why he should be cross with me.
I will make no promise; but I know no reason why I should not.
It cannot be helped; there is no reason why we should try to help it, provided only we do no harm to others, and indeed these delicate threads are the very fairest in the tissue of life.
He admits that a pure instance of either is seldom to be found; he sees no reason why 'these two modes of poetic faculty may not issue hereafter from the same poet in successive perfect works.
He saw no reason why, if she was hit, she should not hit back again, or even why, if she hit, she should not receive an answering blow.
The anonymity of the poem was not long preserved; there was no reason why it should be.
In any case, that was in another land, under abnormal conditions; and, with lack of logic, she saw no reason why he should be socially punished in Jamaica for what he had been legally punished for in Ireland.
And if we meet, there is no reason why we should talk.
Consequently there is no reason why a nation should care to produce goods for export unless and in so far as it needs for actual consumption products of another country which it can not itself so well produce.
So long as the tides rise and fall twice a day, let alone the winds and waterfalls, there is no reason why we should not plow every day if it were desirable.
But except at such times there seems to be nothing in the nature of the sexual relation constituting a reason why a married woman should lead a more secluded and useless life than a man.
Not only is there no reason WHY we should "follow nature," but the result of so doing would be any thing but what we agree is moral.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reason why" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
