Example sentences of "is why [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |
| 2 | The bonding between layers is weak , and they therefore slide over each other , which is why graphite feels slippery and is used as a lubricant . |
| 3 | That is why sperm are strip-searched before being allowed into the egg . |
| 4 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 5 | This is why Patrick has never set much store by material things . |
| 6 | This is why parents who keep rushing in , trying to alleviate their teenager 's suffering , can actually set him back in his attempts to recover . |
| 7 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 8 | The behaviour of physical , nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it , which is why physics books are full of mathematics . |
| 9 | This is why cable and satellite technology must advance together ; reception centres in parts of Britain with a good view of the satellite could pick up the signals and relay them by cable into nearby homes . |
| 10 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | This is why video makers who wish to run third generation copies off second generation edited masters use super-format tapes for all their work . |
| 12 | That is why licence powers are being used to control it and why this Bill , soon to go to Committee , will give the director general still more powers , should he want to use them . |
| 13 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 14 | And that is why Julian is in prison . |
| 15 | And that I think , is why Darwin was prepared to countenance Lamarckism in psychology whereas he never was when he was talking about physical adaptations . |
| 16 | Deep down , Gould remains a conservative on constitutional matters , which is why Robin Cook is backing Smith with an easy conscience . |
| 17 | That may involve shipping it across borders , to countries where controls are more relaxed , which is why efforts to control international movements of waste have increased in step with the tightening of disposal standards . |
| 18 | That , argued an early church preacher , John Chrysostom , is why Jesus performed his first miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee . |
| 19 | This is why Jesus could forgive a woman caught in adultery , when the legalists were ready to stone her to death . |
| 20 | This is why Jesus came , as the God-man , to redeem the evil of the man-God , who wanted to usurp the place of God in creation . |
| 21 | That is why Jesus in St. John 's Gospel can promise that through the arrival of the Paraclete not only he himself will come back and indwell the disciples , but so will the Father ( John 14:17,18,21,23 ) . |
| 22 | This is why VCR and TV sets of one standard will not normally play tapes of another standard . |
| 23 | This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached . |
| 24 | ‘ And that , actually , is why Lord Cromer suspended all delegated powers of virement . |
| 25 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 26 | This is why commentators such as Shaw ( 1978 ) have argued in favour of a broader ‘ social cost accounting ’ approach to settlement policy . |
| 27 | This is why futures contracts are known as derivative securities , because they are derivative on the underlying cash market good . |
| 28 | This is why publication of the Institute 's Environment Research Group 's report Business , Accountancy and the Enviroment : A Policy and Research Agenda is such a welcome event , even if it is as much as two years too late . |
| 29 | So this is why Outwrite was set up . |
| 30 | This is why noise groups invariably deal with subject matter that is anti-humanist — extremes of abjection , obsession , trauma , atrocity , possession — all of which undermine humanism 's confidence that through individual consciousness and will , we can become the subjects of our lives , and work together for the general progress of the commonwealth . |