Example sentences of "reason why we do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Edward she knew the ‘ reason why we do n't marry is not our immaturity but impecuniousness ’ . |
| 2 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 3 | This is one reason why we do not restrict the use of " style " to what we have called stylistic variation , ie " styled " . |
| 4 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 5 | The reason why we do not notice surface tensions in solids is not that the surface tensions are weak but rather that solids are too rigid to be visibly distorted by them . |