Example sentences of "[vb -s] why the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a double muscled trait in existence within his own Weekfield flock for many years , Mr Slade wonders why the Beltex is attracting so much interest . |
| 2 | The Heinkel He 116 is a case in point ( D ) and one wonders why the company produced this fine poster of He 116A D-AJIE flying low over a Bavarian church spire . |
| 3 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 4 | Perhaps you will allow me a brief reply to the anonymous review of my book Art and Civilisation in your November issue : The reviewer wonders why the book was written , or , rather , why the publisher was ‘ keen on the project ’ . |
| 5 | That promise is worthless and that pledge by the Opposition illustrates why the promise is worthless . |
| 6 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 7 | describes why the business may interest purchasers on an international basis |
| 8 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 9 | This example shows why the method is sometimes called the ‘ yes … but ’ technique . |
| 10 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
| 11 | Galatians 4:22ff. shows why the rift was inevitable . |
| 12 | Gunn still rooting for Ferguson in title race Myles Palmer reveals why the Norwich goalkeeper makes Manchester United his second choice |
| 13 | One final conundrum concerns why the El Nino chose this winter to make its return — the first since 1972 . |
| 14 | If one is a fundamentalist Christian who believes the text to be inspired , then one sees why the text is alone to be interpreted in terms of the text . |
| 15 | In other words , what happens at the beginning of the story states why the relationships between two or more characters lead to confrontations which continue onwards to a climax and finally draw the ballet to a suitable conclusion . |
| 16 | It asks why the sun bothered to start the cycle of life at all if life was just going to end at the middle like the soldiers life . |
| 17 | If one asks why the law should draw the line at threats of breach of contract and not include within the tort of intimidation some threats against B even though the acts threatened are not strictly unlawful , the answer can lie only in the structure of the law . |
| 18 | Taylor ( 1987 ) points out that in the United States during the 1980s , the Reagan Administration , pursuing similar policies to those of the Conservatives , presided over a decline in crime and asks why the United Kingdom was different . |
| 19 | LUCRETIA STEWART asks why the killing fields strike so deep a chord |
| 20 | Under such circumstances , it is not at all clear which statutory agency should take the leading role in developing such therapeutic houses and homes , something perhaps which explains why the government has now proposed a specific grant for mental health services in the community which can only be spent by the joint agreement of local health and social services . |
| 21 | That explains why the air is so much warmer . ’ |
| 22 | Frequently , but not always , this same process will have been attempted by the author when inventing the title , which explains why the title is often a useful aid to indexing . |
| 23 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 24 | St Clement , chosen by the Danes as the Patron Saint of their church , was martyred by being tied to an anchor and dropped in the sea — which explains why the symbol of today 's church shows an anchor surmounted by an eagle . |
| 25 | This relative lack of symptoms combined with the involvement of internal lymph nodes probably explains why the complications of LGV are both more common and more serious in women . |
| 26 | This complexity explains why the system of concepts and of values has no direct relationship with the process of production ; the two do n't fit . |
| 27 | Ensure that your memo to the Network identifies the opportunity as a Third Party Sell Situation and explains why the opportunity is being circulated to the Network . |
| 28 | This explains why the authorities , wanting the 1981 provisions to be successful in influencing monetary growth , applied the provisions to these institutions . |
| 29 | But this also explains why the music of the counterculture could be so easily co-opted and its radical implications defused . |
| 30 | The long extract , which is printed in the Critical Survey , p. 134 , should be studied before embarking on the vivid descriptions of the first two books of The Prelude ; it explains why the childhood memories are to be treasured . |