Example sentences of "[be] why [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | This is why cable and satellite technology must advance together ; reception centres in parts of Britain with a good view of the satellite could pick up the signals and relay them by cable into nearby homes . |
| 3 | This is why VCR and TV sets of one standard will not normally play tapes of another standard . |
| 4 | This is why noise and horror go hand in hand — because madness and violence are senseless and arbitrary ( violence is the refusal to argue ) , and the only response is wordless — to scream . |
| 5 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 6 | Merely using stronger chemical bonds will have a small effect upon the strength of a cracked material by comparison with the stress concentrating effect of the crack and this is why diamond and sapphire are brittle and usually not especially strong , in spite of their hardness and high chemical bond energies . |