Example sentences of "is why [noun sg] " 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 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So this is why Outwrite was set up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is why noise and horror go hand in hand — because madness and violence are senseless and arbitrary ( violence is the refusal to argue ) , and the only response is wordless — to scream . |
| 15 | This is why noise control should be taken into consideration at the design stage . |
| 16 | The big oddity is why pay remains low for skills that an industry needs but can not find . |
| 17 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 18 | The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . |
| 19 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 20 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 21 | This is why meditation on God 's word is of such vital and central significance for our personal and spiritual growth . |
| 22 | That is why privatisation is essential . |
| 23 | This is why man sees only blurred images under water unless he wears air-filled goggles . |
| 24 | Yet the nature of many negotiating situations is inherent conflict , it is why bargaining has become necessary . |
| 25 | This is why gravity always attracts bodies toward each other . |
| 26 | This is why union meetings and Labour Party meetings are always conducted in a haze of smoke — or were , until my local party banned it . |
| 27 | That is why probate is delayed . |
| 28 | That is why South Glamorgan had an extra 10 per cent . |
| 29 | That is why haste is everything . |
| 30 | This is why jet-lag is not so marked after a flight in the north-south direction . |