Example sentences of "[noun sg] why [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 2 | He both wore and drank night-caps : the one made of flannel by one of the Macleod ladies , the other a little unaccustomed brandy , which occasioned him to reveal to his hostess why he never drank . |
| 3 | ( Chesarynth wondered in frustration why he never used the woman 's name . |
| 4 | Brian can remember nothing of the accident — to this day it a mystery why it ever happened . |
| 5 | ‘ Nuns fret not at their convent 's narrow-room ’ was Wordsworth 's explanation why he willingly bound himself ‘ Within the Sonnet 's scanty plot of ground ’ . |
| 6 | But can you tell me a reason why everyone else on the Base must die to protect your secret ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think one reason why they never married was that Uncle Phil would n't have asked her . |
| 8 | Perhaps this is the reason why we rarely if ever find a prayer in the New Testament addressed to the Spirit . |
| 9 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 10 | Sunderland 's achievement in reaching the FA Cup final last year is motivating Newcastle , and McDermott said : ‘ We are only three games from Wembley and there is no reason why we too ca n't go all the way . ’ |
| 11 | Her flatwork is superb and is the reason why she consistently produces good horses . |
| 12 | It 's one reason why she always insists on travelling by ship rather than flying . |
| 13 | Which was maybe a good reason why it probably would n't happen , she told herself sternly as she stuffed another olive . |
| 14 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 15 | KEITH Thomas 's article on warm beer ( September ) highlights the main reason why I so rarely attend beer festivals these days . |
| 16 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 17 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 18 | Grierson was a West Highland Scot , as was immediately evident from his accent , an accent which he never attempted to conceal for the excellent reason that he saw no earthly reason why he ever should . |
| 19 | Both insisted that they had never thought of themselves as husband and wife , and there was no reason why anyone else should do so . |
| 20 | She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths . |