Example sentences of "[verb] why it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 2 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |
| 3 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 4 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 6 | Asked why it concentrates so much on close-up shots of her breasts and buttocks , Cindy says : ‘ You exercise to look good . |
| 7 | Because the body clock tends to ‘ run slow ’ , advancing it is more difficult and this explains why it takes longer to adapt ( see Table 11.3 ) . |
| 8 | No one would explain why it seemed so important . |
| 9 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 10 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 11 | To explain why it does so is quite another matter . |
| 12 | Well I just wondered why it goes there , in |
| 13 | The performer 's responsibility is to unfold the structure of a piece — to show why it hangs together — whilst simultaneously characterising the interplay of various contrasted musical elements . |
| 14 | Yeah , I du n no why it does actually . |