Example sentences of "[vb infin] why [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kay does n't know why anyway , nor does erm Kevin and erm Denise |
| 2 | And so , yes it is a big problem and it seems to be increasing , er the number of sufferers has doubled in the past ten years and we , we do n't really know why yet . |
| 3 | Well , then , you 'll know why just at the moment the Consul-General does n't want trouble between Moslems and Copts . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know why so many people supposedly think she 's great . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know why so many of our family have been murdered , ’ says Joyce . |
| 6 | And the theory helps show why sometimes the idea was taken too far . |
| 7 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 8 | I can not understand why so many chiefs are allowed to talk so many different way , and promise so many different things . |
| 9 | But when I see managers present their ideas in just this sort of well-if-you-don't-like-it-that's-all-right way , I can understand why so many are so ineffective in getting new things done . |
| 10 | I do n't really understand why so many galleries seem to be closed to women , but it does n't make any difference to me whether an artist is male or female . |
| 11 | Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office . |
| 12 | Have a good look at what we offer , study our prices and you 'll see why so many holidaymakers choose a John Fowler Holiday year after year . |
| 13 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 14 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 15 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 16 | Yeah , but you can always establish why though |
| 17 | Nor does Anna Massey express any sensuality that could explain why even a bald , bulky vagrant would want to ravish a woman who looks like the world 's oldest pixie . |
| 18 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 19 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 20 | Speaking of elections , can anyone explain why long serving former Darlington councillor Jimmy Whelan was in the Borough Solicitor 's office last Tuesday morning ? |
| 21 | You 've got to believe in luck — how else do you explain why so many people you ca n't stand are doing well ? |
| 22 | Can anybody s like to suggest what reasons could possibly explain why so many overseas holidays were being taken ? |
| 23 | A further weakness of the theory is that it does not explain why so much hooligan activity is based on fan rivalries within the working class ; nor can it deal with Wagg 's ( 1984:198 ) observation that ‘ the most notable attempts by a club 's following to prevent it parting with a popular player or manager have usually been initiated by middle-class people ’ . |
| 24 | This can also explain why only some people on similar sorts of diet get sick and overweight , while others seem to stay slim and healthy . |
| 25 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 26 | Ca n't think why though , but it 's stuck . ’ |
| 27 | If so , may I ask why neither the staff nurse nor myself have been informed ? |
| 28 | And do n't ask why again , ’ he held up one hand . |
| 29 | I du n no why like . |
| 30 | Du n no why so keen on bloody squares . |