Example sentences of "[noun sg] why they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a great mystery why they have never asked why . |
| 2 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 3 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |
| 4 | Because they operate at grassroots level , they involve people in the issues that really matter to them , which may be the reason why they have often been so dynamic . |
| 5 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |