Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] why [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |
| 2 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 3 | For example , Drudy ( 1978 ) in a study of a prosperous farming area , north Norfolk , found that changes in agriculture were the foremost reason why the population of the area had decreased by 3.7 per cent between 1951 and 1961 , and by 6.9 per cent between 1961 and 1971 . |
| 4 | Automatically I began trying to accommodate my ideas to those of the police , the experts ; trying to find some reason why a man after rabbits should have no gun , not even a piece of wire or string about him . |
| 5 | That is , our problem is not one of vicarious liability , of finding some reason why a shareholder should share some other person 's or group 's primary responsibility ; it is rather that we can find no one else who is primarily responsible and in whose responsibility he might share . |
| 6 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 7 | Another reason why the increase in renting is likely to continue is its relationship to land prices and availability . |
| 8 | Apart from wanting to control the domestic demand for money , there is another reason why the Bank of England sometimes alters interest rates . |
| 9 | Another reason why the passive is used in writing is that it can reduce repetition . |
| 10 | There was another reason why the ship would not — could not — be allowed to live . |
| 11 | Another reason why the relation of demes to city is now seen differently , and why demes now seem more important , is simply that more archaeological work has been done on deme sites . |
| 12 | There is a further reason why the image of a revolutionary break from both magic and religion will not do . |
| 13 | This is a further reason why the renewal of the Church can not be divorced from evangelism . |
| 14 | Ignoring the bargaining strengths of both parties , there is no clear reason why a vendor should be willing to agree to this and as a matter of practice should establish the order of priority of satisfaction of liabilities within the terms and conditions of the sale agreement . |
| 15 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 16 | Indeed , the chief reason why the proportion of older people is so large is because the proportion of younger people is so much smaller , having this century almost halved , while the former has trebled . |
| 17 | The second reason why the CAP can not survive is that all practical considerations are subordinated to political expediency . |
| 18 | A second reason why the programme should be regarded as inappropriate and inefficient is that poor storage conditions led to wasting of raw materials ( sugar , salt , etc. ) in the ORS production units . |
| 19 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 20 | The second reason why the homosexual is involved with difference is because , contrary to what the foregoing theory implies , she or he has , in historical actuality , embraced both cultural and racial difference . |
| 21 | There is no real reason why a plan should be " fair " , " unbiased " or " democratic " . |
| 22 | ( Is this the real reason why the birth-rate is so high ? ) |
| 23 | Is not the real reason why the Secretary of State makes those absurd and fictitious claims about the effect of the social charter , which bears no resemblance to the reality of the proposals , that he dare not admit that the Government are opposed , not just in detail but in principle , to the idea of binding employment standards across the Community ? |
| 24 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 25 | On Nov. 8 a UN human rights panel asked for an official explanation why the Oufkir family and the left-wing leader Abraham Serfaty were still imprisoned . |
| 26 | But a Buckingham Palace spokesman said later : ‘ There is a very simple reason why the prince is not in the photograph . |
| 27 | However , the principal reason why the judge found in favour of the bank and against Mrs. O'Brien was : |
| 28 | It is this great variety of tasks that has made research into the production history of each individual aircraft so interesting , and the principal reason why the Mystère/Falcon 20 was chosen for this monograph . |
| 29 | There is no compelling reason why a Bill should lapse at the end of a parliamentary session . |
| 30 | However , there is , as we have shown , hardly any compelling reason why the consumer should decide to go out and spend in 1993 . |