Example sentences of "[prep] why [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly . |
| 2 | In fact she had wondered before why Johnny had always worn civvies , as he termed them , on his visits to the cottage . |
| 3 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 4 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 5 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 6 | This dichotomy leaves too many open questions about why firms differ so much in their handling of technology , or what ‘ really ’ determines technological performance . |
| 7 | It is not clear why horns and antlers should differ so much in shape , but we do know something about why size varies so markedly . |