Example sentences of "why it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about room-sized , and bright blue , which may be why it appealed to the Ixyphalians . |
| 2 | ‘ This is why it appealed to the UNHCR for relief work . |
| 3 | That is why it had to be big . |
| 4 | Jay could n't remember why it had been so important to see her . |
| 5 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 6 | Why it had been irresistible , Maud was not rationally sure . |
| 7 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |
| 8 | Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment . |
| 9 | This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record . |
| 10 | Within minutes we were discussing a recent television series adapted from a classical novel and disagreeing about why it had been so unsatisfying . |
| 11 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 12 | The tail of iguanodon was artificially curved , and this explains why it had a more upright stance than , say , the tiny Leosothosaurus . |
| 13 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 14 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 15 | For a moment , for the first time in his life , he began to realize why his grandfather had never lost his love of Mother Russia , why it had always been in his blood . |
| 16 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 17 | In June 1988 the Torbay Herald Express ran a largely complimentary story on the DGH unit , the Edith Morgan Centre ( EMC ) , investigating why it had been ‘ thrust into the limelight … in a string of incidents involving patients treated at the much talked about psychiatric unit ’ . |
| 18 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 19 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 20 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
| 21 | She could n't think why it had n't occurred to her sooner . |
| 22 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 23 | And , as for the reason why it had struck her … |
| 24 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |
| 25 | It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions . |
| 26 | But Madame Davenant kept a clean and respectable and quiet private hotel , which is why it had been chosen for Miranda and why she liked it , on the whole . |
| 27 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 28 | He could n't think why it had n't occurred to him earlier , as he marched briskly ( after a bit of trouble with the door latch ) out of the pub . |
| 29 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 30 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |