Example sentences of "[noun] why [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 13 years of so-called Tory economic miracle , how does the Secretary of State explain to industrialists in Yorkshire and Humberside why manufacturing investment there is now below the 1979 level , and why there were no measures in the Budget for manufacturers and manufacturing investment ? |
| 2 | ( See , for example , Katznelson 's ( 1982 ) suggestions why city politics in the USA are organized around racial groups rather than occupational classes , and Smith 's ( 1988 ) discussion of the differences between American and British cities in the degree of local political mobilization . ) |
| 3 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 4 | There is , it seems , absolutely no reason why Loxodonta africana should not be tamed and trained as readily as Elephas maximus . |
| 5 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 6 | ( This is one more reason why SAS practice pays dividends . ) |
| 7 | This could even be the reason why drinking coffee is so addictive . |
| 8 | The second main reason why handling grief is different these days is that death has become less and less an event that takes place within the confines of the family circle . |
| 9 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 10 | Mill thinks that voting is to be ideally modelled on this er jury service idea so that 's another reason why jury service is so important for all citizens . |
| 11 | This may be one reason why sign language has come to be regarded as a special need in itself rather than being aligned with other home languages , which would exempt deaf children from the legislation of the Education Act 1981 . |
| 12 | Another reason why language teaching has traditionally tended to be atomistic and bottom-up is that it has followed the historical development and procedures of linguistics . |
| 13 | However , it does highlight a major problem that we have so far not considered — some would argue it is the major reason why interagency cooperation is so difficult — and that is lack of resources . |
| 14 | This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life . |
| 15 | Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence . |
| 16 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 17 | This was also the reason why Practice Direction 2 of 1992 called for matters in issue to be identified in advance , with the paying party outlining the reasons in disputing the item and giving the suggested reduced figure . |
| 18 | As we saw in our discussion of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) , there are good reasons why word identification can not be a largely top-down process . |
| 19 | Discuss the reasons why accrual accounting methods are not appropriate to future decision making . |
| 20 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 21 | There are several reasons why computer mapping is increasing in popularity . |
| 22 | One of the main reasons why intra industry trade has risen , right , is not only that consumers want to purchase different varieties and different qualities of the same good erm that it , it 's very easy to differentiate the product in manufactured goods right . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why owl pellet analysis is so useful a tool for ecologists is the good preservation and lack of breakage of most of the bones . |
| 24 | That is one of the reasons why container gardening catches the imagination . |
| 25 | It also underlines one of the main reasons why community education did not become a radical movement for social change . |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons why maintenance research is less attractive than productivity research in general , and particularly so for marginal areas . |