Example sentences of "[coord] why they " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler . |
| 2 | If we did n't know that terrible things like war had happened , or why they had happened , it would be so easy for us as a country to continue with the same policies that had led to these mistakes in the past . |
| 3 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 4 | Once we enquire , for example , what range of options are available to individual agents , or why they make the particular choices they do , the unsettled differences between the two views begin to emerge . |
| 5 | Hundreds of them are dumb , simple persons , caught in the web of law , unable to comprehend what has happened , what the charge against them is or why they have been sent to jail . |
| 6 | Not having been trained in school formalities , there is no reason why they should associate her test questions with the need to make explicit answers , or why they should pretend that the questioner is not there as the ‘ detached ’ answer requires . |
| 7 | We have not been told what , if any , relationship they had to the deceased , or why they were appointed . |
| 8 | She knew they had had a visitor last night , but no one had told her who it was or why they 'd come . |
| 9 | I ca n't figure out what that 'll do though , or why they want it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't care who these people are or why they want the letters , but when they phone tomorrow you 're going to agree to whatever they demand . |
| 11 | Sometimes they 've been bitter and sometimes hopeless , but no matter how they 've fallen or why they 've fallen , the time comes when they stop and whether you like it or not , or intend it or not , stop they do . |
| 12 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 13 | About who they are or why they are doing it or what they want . |
| 14 | Nobody quite knows who decided all these things were dangerous and evil , or why they did so . |
| 15 | Chopra still did not know what was being excavated , or why they had stolen the most powerful thermonuclear device ever created . |
| 16 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 17 | Others do not mention the possible approval of others , and apparently have no idea why the image attracts them , nor why they should feel an inner compulsion to conform to it . |
| 18 | Secondly , they should decide in what manner and why they are so performed to give appropriate expression and sustain a style throughout the whole design . |
| 19 | It also needs a brief explanation of how and why they make their entrances and exits . |
| 20 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 21 | This explains the anomaly of why these questions were asked by people who already knew she was Catholic , and why they were periodically asked in different ways throughout the year of field-work , for they are the means for establishing and then reconfirming and testing the typification . |
| 22 | Hard work , then sudden pauses as people were overwhelmed by what they were doing and why they had to do it . |
| 23 | New large telescopes may clarify how galaxies form — at present a surprisingly difficult puzzle — and why they cluster . |
| 24 | WHEN A CLUB as great as Cardiff fall on times as hard as they are now it is easy to understand why they ask New Zealand 's John Hart if he could take over as coaching director and why they have asked Australia 's Alec Evans the same question . |
| 25 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 26 | Add to this the change in orientation of the legs in many reptiles , which can be used in an efficient running action , unlike the ungainly waddling of the amphibians and it will be apparent why the reptiles were better adapted to terrestrial life than the amphibians , and why they largely displaced them . |
| 27 | But until we understand how and why they are such reasons and how they differ from ordinary reasons we will not begin to understand the nature of authority . |
| 28 | These pages have described and examined some of the ways in which groups of adults perceived young workers , and how and why they sought to train , supervise , and control them . |
| 29 | For these reasons alone many surveyors decide not to send letters in advance and rely on the interviewers ' skills in being able to explain to people on their doorsteps what the survey is about and why they should help with it . |
| 30 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |