Example sentences of "is why [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 2 | Which is why we 've recently abolished some charges altogether and simplified others . |
| 3 | What puzzles me is why we do n't do the obvious and go and find him . |
| 4 | This is why we do n't test at the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent confidence level because the higher you 'll , the smaller the probability making a type one error essentially er is significance level , right the larger the probability will make a type two error , right , a type two error denotes the power of the test . |
| 5 | ‘ We choose children who will fully appreciate this trip , which is why we do n't select those who are blind . |
| 6 | Which is why we do n't use D for distance . |
| 7 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 8 | That is why we have not become a stronger mass movement . |
| 9 | Computational experience has shown that pseudo-costs do not vary too much from node to node ( which is why we have not given them a ‘ k ’ subscript ) . |
| 10 | That is why we have consistently adopted a pro-European stance . |
| 11 | In fact , the convictions these arguments try to explain are the product of the second approach , of a deep personification of political and social community , and that is why they do not challenge the Kantian thesis that no one is to blame for what he has not himself done . |
| 12 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 13 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 14 | Well well that is why he do n't need to put anything in his ears . |
| 15 | I 'd guess this is why you do n't want to make love — you feel this is the only reason he needs you . |
| 16 | What I do not understand is why you do n't love me . ’ |
| 17 | which is why you do n't see a voltage at the same leg really |
| 18 | This is it , I 've tried , this is why I 've not talked to somebody else about it , because nobody else is listening . |
| 19 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 20 | Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work . |
| 21 | This is why I do n't think it sensible to have a separate procedure for it , 'cos it 's so simple . |
| 22 | Which is why I do n't feel sorry for the poor . ’ |
| 23 | That is why I do not bother to change when he calls . |