Example sentences of "[adj] why [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm schools I think schools is just up your street mainly because erm And I 'll tell you another why I think schools will benefit a lot of people going , first of all it 's a fairly new product so we 're really in the launch up stage . |
| 2 | Is this why we have made so little progress ? |
| 3 | Is this why it was so secret ? |
| 4 | And is this why you are now living in an abandoned farm building near Glastonbury , in Somerset ? |
| 5 | Is this your problem ? , is this why you ended up with a |
| 6 | ‘ Is this why you never married ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Is this why you were following her around ? |
| 8 | Is this why you are asking all these questions ? ’ |
| 9 | Is this why you are so unhappy ? ’ |
| 10 | It 's like expecting the class system to change once the workers have explained to the ruling class why they do n't like poverty ; or racism to go away once blacks have made clear why they find it oppressive . |
| 11 | Users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word , and many systems do not make it clear why they have failed to find anything . |
| 12 | About fifty people due on the flight today were stopped at Baghdad airport by Iraqi authorities , it 's not clear why they 're being held . |
| 13 | But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons . |
| 14 | It is not clear why it should be that difficult , routinely , every day , enquiry agents are used to discover details of employees and customers financial , health , and criminal records . |
| 15 | I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable . |
| 16 | It will now be clear why you can sometimes find so many different fossil gastropod shells together in a single fossil deposit . |
| 17 | Pick three reasons why each of the couples would choose Magnet and three why they would pick Neff , using each point once . |
| 18 | Two , three why you got ta get some money before we go up there then ? |
| 19 | There is certainly a security problem , in that arranging for security and integrity of data is more complex by comparison with sequential files and this , coupled with their poor performance for sequential applications , makes it obvious why they are not used if a sequential file is appropriate . |
| 20 | ‘ Well it 's obvious why they want the first two — so they can use it as gas on the Front and turn the whole of Europe into zombies . ’ |
| 21 | When a child arrives in this country unaccompanied and seeking political asylum — in some cases , it is extremely obvious why they are seeking political asylum — it is very important that the child is treated properly , as any homeless or friendless child should be treated . |
| 22 | ‘ Is n't it obvious why she points the finger at you ? |
| 23 | Er , it 's fairly obvious why you want to bake a quiche or a a flan , it 's fairly obvious , is it , why you want to play the clarinet ? |
| 24 | This was not an express requirement in the previous legislation , and it is not obvious why it should have been introduced into the new law . |
| 25 | This is an alarmingly grown-up piece of acting from such a small boy and it is obvious why he is paid so much money to do it . |
| 26 | What 's so terrible for IMP in that ? ’ she blustered , still bewildered why he should find the idea of it so important . |
| 27 | Scarlet still found the episode entirely mysterious , since she could think of no reason at all why they had been invited . |
| 28 | I see no reason at all why we ca n't develop a similar system here . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether you heard me before , Larry , but I see no reason at all why you should not live here . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |