Example sentences of "[adj] [be] why [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 This is why a mix of different people has the potential to dovetail and become a cohesive team .
2 This is why the idea of grinding a good gouge to a skew shape was never very popular .
3 This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties .
4 Goodness is such a property , perhaps ; and this is why the principle of universalizability has teeth in ethics .
5 This is why the notion of a cross-party association must not be allowed to slip away .
6 The third and last of Freud 's categories of basic psychopathology , the psychotic conflict between the ego and reality , seems an unpromising candidate for externalization ; and perhaps this is why the incidence of psychosis shows no sign of diminishing in modern culture in the way in which , for instance , hysteria has diminished .
7 This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge .
8 This is why the responsibility of ( say ) looking after a small brother or sister is so valuable in enhancing the social awareness and maturity of the older boy or girl who is doing the substitute parenting .
9 This is why the head of the Basque government , Jose Antonio Ardanza , after saying recently that the Basque nationalists wanted to keep Spain governable , nevertheless added that ‘ our political reason for existence begins and ends in Euskadi , ’ the Basque land .
10 This is why the selection of ‘ professional ’ and ‘ client ’ can never be dismissed by disabled people as irrelevant or innocuous .
11 This is why the perception of a complex painting or piece of music can be elaborated in ever greater detail as more and more elements come to be discriminated .
12 Context and use are vital to our understanding of deixis , and this is why the investigation of its behaviour in a particular discourse is relevant .
13 This is why the use of system-wide logical names is always recommended ; if you use physical names and subsequently have to move the storage directory , you will require a site visit .
14 This is why the strategy of ‘ export led industrialization fuelled by foreign investment and technology ’ ( ELIFFIT ) has been so powerful .
15 That is why the support of the government to the voluntary sector has grown so dramatically in recent years .
16 The environment is crucial in this respect , and that is why the Council of Europe and its social , health and family affairs committee show continuing interest and involvement in these matters .
17 That is why the assistance of a trained , skilled and sympathetic third party is of such help when marriage conflict gets out of hand .
18 That is why the story of the binding of Isaac in chapter 22 is so bewildering .
19 That is why the rest of this book is so important .
20 That is why the abolition of the 1908 Act was sprung on us , on British Coal 's management and on the work force .
21 That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important .
22 That is why the work of general practitioners is important in terms of the regular checks that they carry out on their patients , in particular those patients aged over 75 .
23 That is why the issue of pay for office became " a political symbol " — a symbol of the determination of the democrats that poverty should not be a bar to political participation , as Pericles and Euripides boasted it was not .
24 That is why the settlement of 4.4 per cent .
25 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 .
26 The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence .
27 That is why the balance of the argument in this matter is so fine .
28 That is why the initiative of God towards us is so vital for a new start in life and marriage : ‘ We love God because he first loved us . ’
29 That is why the production of analgesics is almost as much an art as it is a science .
30 That 's why a lot of skins argue that the only ‘ authentic ’ music is the original Jamaican ska and rocksteady of the early to mid 60's .
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