Example sentences of "[noun sg] why [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is incumbent upon the researcher to explain clearly at the very onset why the research is being done , what sort of results are hoped for and what feedback there is likely to be which may help the potentate and/or expert who has helped with the project . |
| 2 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |
| 3 | Asked by the judge why the question was relevant , Mr Carman said it was about the development of the friendship between the politician and the producer . |
| 4 | This morning leading figures from the Law Society of Scotland will congregate in Westminster to tell the Scottish Affairs select committee why the reforms should not go ahead . |
| 5 | This is where my question was coming I ask the convenor why the committee failed to follow up their good work by not promoting the kidney donor cards through ministers to the congregation . |
| 6 | The historian G M Young once asked an ancient Tory why the party had distrusted Disraeli for so long . |
| 7 | The Turks , no longer under pressure to take the refugees in , question why the Kurds are being coaxed into half-way camps , rather than taken directly all the way to their own abandoned front doors . |
| 8 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 9 | This begs the question why the Democrats and the White House are staging such a divisive quarrel , at a time when agreement on a deficit-cutting budget for 1990 is already overdue ( the nominal deadline passed yesterday ) . |
| 10 | This latter would be handed a bus pass and a deck chair , and could pass the time wondering to their hearts ' content why the hell they were there . |
| 11 | If he explains to the court why the debt has n't been paid , you and he will be given a date for the case to be heard . |
| 12 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 13 | Asked by the All Africa Press Service why the NCCK , which groups together over 35 Protestant churches in Kenya , is taking such a leading role in the democratic process , Mr Kobia said : |
| 14 | The summons requires the person to attend the court to explain to the magistrate why the sum has not been paid . |
| 15 | 353 , 355 , Lord Mansfield explained that the true ground why no mandamus will lie to the Inns of Court is ‘ that they are voluntary societies submitting to government , and the ancient and usual way of redress is by appeal to the judges . ’ |
| 16 | The main points to bring out concern why a professional should not take on ownership-of behaviour problems . |
| 17 | Because the result of what we 're trying to achieve , particularly if one goes for the new settle settlement option , is to squeeze , as we said this morning , a gallon into a pint pot , and it it would be interesting to hear from the County why the Greater York boundary is what it is . |
| 18 | This creates a problem in that there is no justification why a manager 's compensation package should be supplemented at the expense of the corporation or its shareholders . |
| 19 | At the finish Brook asked the audience why the list of the dead at Agincourt did not evoke the same response as the description of the dead at Auschwitz . |
| 20 | Trainee-computer communication failures for very simple reasons can lead to a complete hiatus unless they are detected and restored by an experienced trainer who can explain to the trainee why the system is failing to respond adequately . |
| 21 | Only the war saved Joyce from declining into the crankiness and obscurity of those who , for instance , demanded in small newspaper advertisements and at Speakers ' Corner why the bishops refused to open Joanna Southcott 's box . |
| 22 | It is a mystery why the submarine is so well preserved . |
| 23 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 24 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 25 | On Nov. 8 a UN human rights panel asked for an official explanation why the Oufkir family and the left-wing leader Abraham Serfaty were still imprisoned . |
| 26 | The survey says that there appears to be no one explanation why the fees should be so low , particularly as other companies ' fees do relate to their size . |
| 27 | In fact , the best stories work like a toppled pack of cards : you realise at the end why the man could n't have bought the pornography from the dodgy book-seller ( he was blind ) or why the couple should n't have wasted their savings on replacing the diamond necklace ( it was paste ) and think , Aha . |
| 28 | The ‘ explanation ’ raises many problems , not the least being why the symptoms should depend upon whether the temperature rhythm is delayed or advanced with respect to the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 29 | This is one good reason why every State should publish all the accident reports it raises — some other airline quite remote from the one in question may avoid a similar disaster if the details of an accident and the necessary corrective action are made available to all who care to take the trouble to read about them . |
| 30 | There is no compelling reason why a Bill should lapse at the end of a parliamentary session . |