Example sentences of "reason why [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brittle bones is a condition that affects all older people to some degree , but post-menopausal women in particular ; and it is the reason why they break their bones so easily if they fall . |
| 2 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 3 | The whole reason why they succeed or fail is management . ’ |
| 4 | The whole reason why they succeed or fail is management |
| 5 | This was one reason why they played such an important role in the renaissance of interest in the classical world from the fifteenth century onwards : here were many examples of objects giving tangible evidence for events which could otherwise only be read about . |
| 6 | There was a reason why they had foregone the privilege of having a singing canary in the dock . |
| 7 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 8 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 9 | They are also costly which is , perhaps , the major reason why they tend to be little used when compared with the cross-sectional , single survey . |
| 10 | These additions to a basic service may persuade customers to sign up with a particular factor , but the reason why they stay comes back to the quality of the service provided . |
| 11 | For example , some respondents in Phoenix 's ( 1991 ) study of white and Afro-Caribbean mothers aged under 20 pointed to their increased control of household resources as one reason why they felt they fared better economically by staying single . |
| 12 | There 's a tendency erm as well to suspect that one reason why many non-metro districts have election by thirds is that they are generally more urban ones and the reason why they go for it is to keep the party machine in a permanent state of electioneering readiness . |
| 13 | Mrs Whitehouse , in her account of the campaign , argued that the real reason why they did not wish to become involved was because of the topic of the poem — homosexuality — rather than its blasphemy . |
| 14 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |
| 15 | and the reason why they did n't is because the losses at the moment are acceptable . |
| 16 | There is no convincing scientific reason why they did not occur . |
| 17 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 18 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 19 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps there was some other reason why they called you . ’ |
| 21 | And that 's the reason why they want to get me back . ’ |
| 22 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |
| 23 | But the reason why they do that of course is they would like you to keep coming back |
| 24 | But I 'll touch on the reason why they do n't need those condition in a few minutes . |
| 25 | Because they operate at grassroots level , they involve people in the issues that really matter to them , which may be the reason why they have often been so dynamic . |
| 26 | Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier . |
| 27 | One reason why they have low incomes is the rise in interest rates and the cost of borrowing . |
| 28 | Well , the reason why they have six legs , if you think about it , is exceedingly simple , and it 's again a perfectly good adaptive reason . |
| 29 | It was not long since every family of considerable substance was haunted by a spirit they called Browny , which did several sorts of work and this was the reason why they gave him offerings on what was called Browny 's stone . |
| 30 | Patients are usually barefoot , unless there is some special reason why they need shoes . |