Example sentences of "why [pers pn] has " in BNC.

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1 She 's as poor as a church mouse , that 's why she has to come to Arthur and Margot 's in the holidays . ’
2 If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’
3 Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ …
4 Which is why she has a bulky grey , barely portable Compaq PC ( vintage circa 1983 ) and sales and marketing director Jeremy Rivers has an equally grey IBM PC ( circa 1984 ) .
5 There will , of course , be reasons why she has never ‘ grown up ’ emotionally , and most of them will be no fault of her own .
6 Worth buying for the introduction alone , this collection of Burchill 's contributions to a variety of British papers and magazines ( including us , of course ) highlights why she has always been a great read .
7 We asked her why she has given herself such an arduous task .
8 I ca n't think why she has n't done it yet , now you come to mention it . ’
9 ‘ His daughter has disappointed him ; that is why she has no children , ’ continued Surere .
10 It is difficult to see why she has hitherto accepted the development of a unitary European state , which is as distasteful to Continental as to British voters , for fear of being ‘ left out ’ .
11 She is a teacher and has managed to get out of school early and does not tell us why she has left .
12 THE TV presenter Fiona Armstrong yesterday spoke for the first time about why she has quit the breakfast station GMTV — and dismissed talk about the notorious ‘ F ( for fanciability ) factor ’ .
13 When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says
14 But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere .
15 Well that 's why she has n't been about you see .
16 why she has n't been to school she was in erm the .
17 You tell me why they has Mac before Mains .
18 I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there .
19 It 's in this year 's draft accounts too , but we have people called auditors who are going to recognize this bill , and ask all sorts of boring questions like why it has not been paid , whether it is likely to be paid , and if so when .
20 The essence , or form , of a species accounts for the properties of that species , and a definition of it provides the means of demonstrating that the species does have those properties , and why it has them .
21 That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’
22 They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time .
23 It makes sense for this alternative establishment to be pro-European , not only because it is in tune with the music Jacques Delors is making , but because it sees Brussels as a counterpoise to London.This is why it has been pointless to question the sincerity of Kinnock 's conversion to Europe .
24 This is the primary reason why it has proved so hard to achieve structural change in many areas .
25 The reason why it has been possible to maintain the semblance of continuity since Adenauer is that the soubriquet is still ‘ Europe ’ .
26 In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong .
27 They want to know why it has great psychological appeal .
28 That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it .
29 One thinks back to Morrissey in the early days and wonders why it has to be this way .
30 The rider has to work out the problem , why it has happened and then decide how best to correct it .
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