Example sentences of "[is] why he " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why he does not cut them off , ’ said an aide to the Prince in Bangkok last week . |
| 2 | It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town . |
| 3 | He confesses this is why he 's started leaping out in uncharacteristic new directions which discomfit the regulars , playing with bright colours and polka dots when the world expects sludge and subtle stripes ad nauseam . |
| 4 | Unlike Mr Major , Mr Hurd is an experienced former diplomat and a Foreign Office Minister of State who has sounded made-for-the-job since day one , which is why he would probably not have got it but for the Lawson affair . |
| 5 | Unlike Mr Major , Mr Hurd is an experienced former diplomat and a Foreign Office Minister of State who has sounded made-for-the-job since day one , which is why he would probably not have got it but for the Lawson affair . |
| 6 | And poignancy is why he obsessively prizes and keeps open ancient wounds . |
| 7 | When Prince is the master of all he sees , when everything he touches turns to gold when he 's the supreme seducer — that 's when my admiration knows no bounds , that cool is why he TOWERS in our imagination way , way above those meagre souls who statistically and fiscally dwarf him . |
| 8 | That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month . |
| 9 | Which is why he spoke to a geezer he knows down Battersea , and the geezer down Battersea done him some nice concrete and rolled an acre of Astroturf on top . |
| 10 | That is why he never took up any of the opportunities to teach that he had in his later life . ’ |
| 11 | Which , he reflected , is why he pays me one hundred thousand pounds a year . |
| 12 | I think Morrissey sees himself as some sort of father figure and I think that is why he gets people 's backs up . ’ |
| 13 | He has always been very bad about it , which is why he injured himself at Steve Hadley 's yard , and even now John has to dope him before he is clipped . |
| 14 | The mystery really , is why he did it . |
| 15 | Nails did not like evenings at home , which is why he stayed out . |
| 16 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 17 | We used to call him Daddy Wilkins because he was the father of a large family , but they had all grown up , got married and spread about , so he was left on his own — probably not able to cook for himself which is why he went to live at Mrs Raw 's place . |
| 18 | John Major is aware of these anomalies and that is why he is to review the system . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Fry 's pleas do n't seem to have much impression on the chairman , which is why he 's still keen to join a consortium trying to buy out Fat Stan . |
| 20 | That is why he appointed him Lord High Protector — he knew and trusted him implicitly . |
| 21 | Bill was completely subversive and that , I suppose , is why he liked climbing and why he endeared himself to climbers . |
| 22 | ‘ But Rickie knows he 's in trouble , big trouble , which is why he suggested this idea of isolating himself at sea . ’ |
| 23 | Bodie said , ‘ What I do n't understand is why he did n't attack the family immediately his daughter died ? |
| 24 | That is why he writes such comments as : |
| 25 | That is why he underestimated Constance and misunderstood Ludovico . |
| 26 | That is why he gave the City prior notice of measures that will come into effect in April , 1994 . |
| 27 | He is shy — which is why he always wears wraparound sunglasses . |
| 28 | From now he will be treated as a Soviet offender , that is why he is not at Camp 5 … |
| 29 | ‘ He is now outside the camp , that is why he climbed the wire . |
| 30 | From 1924 my father intended to write a major work about his friend and that is why he had asked Modigliani 's mother to supply him with all possible information about his childhood and adolescence . |