Example sentences of "[vb infin] why [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 2 | But he was very expensive and conceded 63 runs in eight overs , which made one wonder why left-arm spinner Davis , whose five pre-lunch overs cost only 18 , was not asked to bowl again in the innings . |
| 3 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 4 | And a tendency for the responding acquired to generalize to will also explain why discrimination learning which requires the subject to make different responses to the two stimuli should be retarded . |
| 5 | This latter point may explain why XLA carrier females show completely skewed X-chromosome activity in their B-cell lineage . |