Example sentences of "[adj] [is] why [art] [noun sg] [prep] " 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 emphasis in multicultural and anti-racist education is now towards ‘ whole school policies ’ , involving a fundamental reappraisal of the assumptions , practices and outcomes , intentional and unintentional , of school life ( Straker-Welds , 1984 ; Arora and Duncan , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is why the selection of ‘ professional ’ and ‘ client ’ can never be dismissed by disabled people as irrelevant or innocuous . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is why the strategy of ‘ export led industrialization fuelled by foreign investment and technology ’ ( ELIFFIT ) has been so powerful . |
| 17 | This is why the search for true happiness will inevitably start to expose the shallowness of our lives . |
| 18 | This is why the balance between the different parts of the human self is so very important and why we should all seek to achieve that balance if we possibly can . |
| 19 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 20 | That is why a player like Uwe Bein has come back in , ’ Vogts said . |
| 21 | That is why the support of the government to the voluntary sector has grown so dramatically in recent years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That is why the assistance of a trained , skilled and sympathetic third party is of such help when marriage conflict gets out of hand . |
| 24 | That is why the story of the binding of Isaac in chapter 22 is so bewildering . |
| 25 | That is why the rest of this book is so important . |
| 26 | That is why the abolition of the 1908 Act was sprung on us , on British Coal 's management and on the work force . |
| 27 | That is why the surface to weight and volume ratio , so often neglected in discussions of animal biology , is important . |
| 28 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 29 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
| 30 | 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 . |