Example sentences of "[to-vb] why [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've got to do something about it , we were promised these savings , there are n't any , it does n't look as if anybody 's working awfully hard to get them , and I 'd like to know why not , and what 's going on , and I 'm quite happy to support what Mr proposes , that we refer it all to budget review . |
| 2 | In a letter to Henry Savage on 2 December 1913 he writes : ‘ I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality , whether he admits it or not ’ ( Letters , 1 15 ) . |
| 3 | Col. Dabson wanted to know why so much money was to be spent on open spaces such as Radford Park and the recreation ground . |
| 4 | Similarly , when he visits the south-east region , he will want to know why so many sales people are investing their time in the office rather than out on the road selling . |
| 5 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 6 | ‘ I always used to wonder why so many players retired without putting anything back into their clubs . |
| 7 | No one in the Labour Party seems prepared to consider why more than 14 million people , including many of the very poor , voted Tory . |
| 8 | In attempting to understand why yet another presidency in the 1970s failed , it is necessary first to return to some of the earlier analyses . |
| 9 | It also permits us to understand why only to is used with a verb such as discern : ( 49 ) We discerned it to be a man . |
| 10 | If you imagine suddenly and unexpectedly finding yourself in an almost vertical dive facing the ground , it is easy to understand why so many pilots fail to make a movement forward on the stick to help the glider unstall itself . |
| 11 | It is difficult for the athletes who know Daley to understand why so many people are unable to get along with him . |
| 12 | It is not difficult to understand why so many journalists and broadcasters fell foul of Nkrumah 's government . |
| 13 | It is easy now to understand why so many cameramen have filmed their own deaths . |
| 14 | And to this day I shall never be able to understand why so many of my generation , by the time they were in their teens , had a mouthful of dentures because it was not due to eating sweets . |
| 15 | It is difficult to understand why so many media interests voluntarily accept " D " notices : the system would not work without their support . |
| 16 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 17 | meant it to be on Thursday ours not to reason why apparently erm Sister Josephine us , she went off by train to wherever it is she 's gone , but will be coming back with another Sister in a car tomorrow |
| 18 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 19 | Confronted with this sort of attitude it is easy to see why even such a reformer as Butler , who was usually extremely sensitive to the issue of the personal rights of individuals , responded with outrage to attempts to block age-of-consent legislation . |
| 20 | It 's not hard to see why even when clean , Kamrok 's verses are very funny . |
| 21 | It is easy to see why so many people , from Hobbes onwards , have regarded the possession of de facto power , of actual effective power over the behaviour of people , as crucial to the possession of legitimate authority . |
| 22 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 23 | I 'm beginning to realize why perfectly sane people pitch themselves at the mercy of the elements miles from the security of terra firma , has provided the perfect resort for our first events of the . |
| 24 | Trevor began to explain why not , about the pointlessness of formal education in an area where knowledge depended so much upon intuition , and also about how much he earned with his overtime at Batsby Ball Bearings . |
| 25 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 26 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 27 | However , this analysis also fails to explain why even the reading aloud of single function words ( where there is no question of stress patterns in a sentence ) is so often impaired in Broca 's aphasia . |
| 28 | A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join . |
| 29 | This was a real benefit , and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory . |
| 30 | The British troops were very friendly with the Madeirans and many courted the local girls , which is said to explain why so many fair-haired and blue-eyed men and women of obvious Anglo-Saxon ancestry are to be seen in Madeira . |