Example sentences of "is why the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why the normal period for a charitable covenant is 4 years . |
| 2 | That is why the post-graduate course exists — to shape intellect and enthusiasm and provide practical and professional skills . |
| 3 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |
| 4 | That is why the glass is dedicated to Diana . |
| 5 | This is why the worst risk of swinging and ground looping is always in calm or light wind conditions . |
| 6 | This is why the idea of grinding a good gouge to a skew shape was never very popular . |
| 7 | This is why the same physical types and personalities are still represented amongst the students of professional schools . |
| 8 | This is why the devices can be both normally on or normally off . |
| 9 | This is why the Government 's present enthusiasm for volunteering is hard to stomach . |
| 10 | That is why the prayer of the Church as such , the Eucharistic meal which expresses and celebrates joyfully the community of the Church and the ultimate unity of humankind is the sacrament of bodily suffering , of the sacrificial death of Christ at our hands . |
| 11 | That is why the Moscow Kursk and Moscow Volga lines were so sensitive , amongst others . |
| 12 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 13 | That is why the divine providence revealed himself in story . |
| 14 | That is why the British Tourist Association launched its ‘ Winning Words ’ initiative , to encourage the tourism industry to improve the service it offers to non-English speaking guests . |
| 15 | That is why the sachet I have sent you is so important . |
| 16 | But he is anxious to embrace the whole city , which is why the council is sponsoring a series of 40 commissions embracing artists , musicians and playwrights . |
| 17 | That , as much as the cost of mortgages , is why the system has frozen solid , with hardly anyone buying or selling . |
| 18 | This is why the CIA during the 50s and 60s covertly supported a multitude of initiatives whose aim was to present the new American Art across the world as a promise for the future . |
| 19 | This is why the Campaign for Quality Television is calling for the money bid in the auction to go into programmes , rather than to the Treasury . |
| 20 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 21 | ‘ That is why the berries drop off sooner . ’ |
| 22 | The balance between the Bank 's traditional operations and those of the IFC should be shifted further in the latter 's direction ; that is why the IFC 's capital increase ought to go ahead . |
| 23 | The real question is why the scalper 's services are needed in the first place . |
| 24 | Coalitions have never worked in India , which is why the country has always returned to the comforting but damaging embrace of Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 25 | What remains puzzling is why the book should have been notorious at all . |
| 26 | That is why the three countries , along with Spain , got together 20 years ago to pool resources in the Airbus consortium and buy their way into a business dominated by Americans . |
| 27 | That is why the slogan should really be ‘ narrower share ownership ’ . |
| 28 | And that , I reflected on the final leg , enveloped in air-conditioned heat and six-speaker stereo sound , is why the Discovery is so uniquely suited , not only to the rough and tumble of off-road riding , but also to the equal rigours of life in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate . |
| 29 | That is why the Lord 's Prayer demands that the Christian community becomes a forgiving , reconciling community . |
| 30 | That is why the Tory Party always contests the Rhondda , for example . |