Example sentences of "[be] why the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be why the dollar slipped . |
| 2 | This may be why the authorities with relatively extensive training programmes , who were most likely to be the ones who were extending their internal programmes , were also likely to want more ‘ training officer time ’ . |
| 3 | This may be why the earlier antiquaries thought of them as country houses . |
| 4 | ‘ They found out about the damaged keg and had to repair it secretly ; that must be why the van was backed up to the freight car . ’ |
| 5 | ( This may be why the speech of aphasics is often peppered with expletives and stereotyped phrases . ) |
| 6 | are employed in the construction industry — that may be why the effects of the recession have not hit Shrewsbury as hard as they have hit other parts of the country , although we have felt the cold wind . |
| 7 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |
| 8 | The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone . |
| 9 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 10 | This is why the normal period for a charitable covenant is 4 years . |
| 11 | That is why the post-graduate course exists — to shape intellect and enthusiasm and provide practical and professional skills . |
| 12 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |
| 13 | That is why the glass is dedicated to Diana . |
| 14 | This is why the worst risk of swinging and ground looping is always in calm or light wind conditions . |
| 15 | This is why the idea of grinding a good gouge to a skew shape was never very popular . |
| 16 | This is why the same physical types and personalities are still represented amongst the students of professional schools . |
| 17 | This is why the devices can be both normally on or normally off . |
| 18 | This is why the Government 's present enthusiasm for volunteering is hard to stomach . |
| 19 | That is why the prayer of the Church as such , the Eucharistic meal which expresses and celebrates joyfully the community of the Church and the ultimate unity of humankind is the sacrament of bodily suffering , of the sacrificial death of Christ at our hands . |
| 20 | That is why the Moscow Kursk and Moscow Volga lines were so sensitive , amongst others . |
| 21 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 22 | That is why the divine providence revealed himself in story . |
| 23 | That is why the British Tourist Association launched its ‘ Winning Words ’ initiative , to encourage the tourism industry to improve the service it offers to non-English speaking guests . |
| 24 | That is why the sachet I have sent you is so important . |
| 25 | But he is anxious to embrace the whole city , which is why the council is sponsoring a series of 40 commissions embracing artists , musicians and playwrights . |
| 26 | That , as much as the cost of mortgages , is why the system has frozen solid , with hardly anyone buying or selling . |
| 27 | This is why the CIA during the 50s and 60s covertly supported a multitude of initiatives whose aim was to present the new American Art across the world as a promise for the future . |
| 28 | This is why the Campaign for Quality Television is calling for the money bid in the auction to go into programmes , rather than to the Treasury . |
| 29 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 30 | ‘ That is why the berries drop off sooner . ’ |