Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] why [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 2 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 3 | It was not clear why the matter deserved a book to itself . |
| 4 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 5 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 6 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 7 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 8 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 9 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 10 | I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board . |
| 11 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 12 | I am not sure why the hatred exists . |
| 13 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 14 | It is now apparent why A must be pre-reduced to upper Hessenberg form . |
| 15 | He was n't certain why the expression made his stomach churn , but churn it did . |
| 16 | I 'm not quite sure why the Championship actually disrupts things the way it does . |
| 17 | She was n't quite sure why the possibility that it was Luke Hunter who had sent her the flowers was so disturbing … |