Example sentences of "[noun pl] why [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of football 's great mysteries why Clough senior won only two caps , despite being one of the deadliest strikers of the late 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 2 | One understands from these films why critic Gavin Lambert remarked of his departure from England in 1956 that the country ‘ really seemed in the doldrums , like it had lost the war almost . ’ |
| 3 | I would like him to explain to the Americans , whose US banner had ‘ his ’ rings the size of footballs , or to the Swedes , who had the Olympic logo emblazoned across their tracksuits , and to the many other teams why Great Britain are not entitled to wear it . |
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| 5 | ( See , for example , Katznelson 's ( 1982 ) suggestions why city politics in the USA are organized around racial groups rather than occupational classes , and Smith 's ( 1988 ) discussion of the differences between American and British cities in the degree of local political mobilization . ) |
| 6 | It also shows those who have not made up their minds why Russia 's reformers are doing what they are trying to do . |
| 7 | In any case it is not unreasonable to expect history teachers to justify publicly to tax-payers and rate-payers why money should be spent on teaching history . |
| 8 | It may be obvious to tennis nuts why tennis should be the chosen one , but to the objective outsider , other games have better claims to priority . |
| 9 | A syllogism with premisses of this sort gives a demonstrative understanding of the causes why things necessarily have the properties they do , because the definitions with which it starts are definitions of the ‘ forms ’ of these things , and formal causes are one of the four kinds of cause which Aristotle distinguished . |
| 10 | They blended together from the first and there can be no doubt that Harry 's forceful play on the right wing was one of the prime reasons why Simpson was able to crack in so many goals . |
| 11 | As we saw in our discussion of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) , there are good reasons why word identification can not be a largely top-down process . |
| 12 | It has been assumed that there were two reasons why Mrs Thatcher decided to leave these shores . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there may be special reasons why clustering may be a useful technique , such as when an investigator is interested in certain subgroups of the population . |
| 14 | There seem to be three main reasons why employers take a deliberate decision not to consult . |
| 15 | There are three major reasons why employers in the private sector do not increase the numbers on their payrolls . |
| 16 | Most of the reasons why employers to bring in temporary workers are straightforward . |
| 17 | I hope to have established the point that it is not necessary to adopt the apocalyptic views of events put forward by the more sombre critics , nor to deserve the dismissive label ‘ puritanical ’ in order to believe that there are very good reasons why parents have to enforce rules . |
| 18 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |
| 19 | Polybius ' misgivings about the future of Rome had proved justified — and this was perhaps one of the main reasons why Posidonius decided to continue his work . |
| 20 | What are the main reasons why management would require additional information to the annual accounts ? |
| 21 | IAN BOTHAM yesterday blamed the dropping of David Gower as one of the main reasons why England have lost the Test series against India . |
| 22 | Discuss the reasons why accrual accounting methods are not appropriate to future decision making . |
| 23 | The same qualities — mechanical strength , chemical inertness and infrared transparency — were the reasons why diamond windows were selected for the NASA space-probes sent to Venus in 1978 . |
| 24 | But there are more fundamental reasons why unity with either Rome or the Orthodox is still a long way off . |
| 25 | The practical development reasons why communicators and educators can make a difference through communicating with women and empowering them with information and skills are outlined below . |
| 26 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |
| 27 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 28 | There are several reasons why computer mapping is increasing in popularity . |
| 29 | Give two reasons why Jesus might have used parables . |
| 30 | There are two reasons why element R might be favoured , one immediate and one long-term . |