1.   A player without a reasonable excuse should be barred from entering the competition the following year.

2.   A refusal to answer questions for example, could, in the absence of reasonable excuse, amount to contempt of court.

3.   He tried to think of a reasonable excuse.

4.   If your train was cancelled, that is a perfectly reasonable excuse.

5.   Lateness, without a reasonable excuse, will not be tolerated.

6.   The driver refused and was in due course convicted by justices of failing to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse.

7.   There is, it should be noted, no exception for reasonable excuse in this section.

8.   Again, no screen, no tip, no reasonable excuse.

9.   All kinds of reasonable excuses can be made for it.

10.   Given the economic experience of areas with first-class speedways, neither of these considerations seems daunting enough to provide a reasonable excuse for not going for the gold.