Example sentences of "[det] is why [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why Hugh Clifford , who was as committed as anyone to indirection , could come to Northern Nigeria in 1921 and be appalled by the state of administrative dereliction which he found there . |
| 2 | This is why Domesday Book does not refer to many churches which are known to have existed from other evidence . |
| 3 | This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology . |
| 4 | Perhaps this is why Steve Jones has preferred to spend most of his career studying snails . |
| 5 | This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country . |
| 6 | This is why noise groups invariably deal with subject matter that is anti-humanist — extremes of abjection , obsession , trauma , atrocity , possession — all of which undermine humanism 's confidence that through individual consciousness and will , we can become the subjects of our lives , and work together for the general progress of the commonwealth . |
| 7 | This is why noise control should be taken into consideration at the design stage . |
| 8 | This is why union meetings and Labour Party meetings are always conducted in a haze of smoke — or were , until my local party banned it . |
| 9 | This is why futures contracts are known as derivative securities , because they are derivative on the underlying cash market good . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is why US writers on the state have paid such attention to action . |
| 11 | This is why video makers who wish to run third generation copies off second generation edited masters use super-format tapes for all their work . |
| 12 | This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . " |
| 13 | ‘ This is why food packaging products can only be 50% recycled . |
| 14 | This is why vulnerability factors only become of causal significance when a severe event occurs or major difficulties exist . |
| 15 | Perhaps this is why Savage Orcs are famous for the number and power of their skin-clad bone waving Shamans . |
| 16 | This is why target readers can often identify what appears to be a lexically and grammatically ‘ normal ’ text as a translation , or as ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 17 | This is why sound insulation should be taken into account when the building is designed : insulated breaks can be arranged to stop sound travelling , but this is n't possible after the structure is complete . |
| 18 | No doubt this is why Mr Portillo is starting a radical review of public expenditure . |
| 19 | No doubt this is why Mr Portillo is starting a radical review of public expenditure . |
| 20 | This is why Mr Mandela will not come out first , why the initial idea will be to test the waters with the lesser-known prisoners . |
| 21 | That is why licence powers are being used to control it and why this Bill , soon to go to Committee , will give the director general still more powers , should he want to use them . |
| 22 | That is why Mrs Zamzam left Um Al-Farajh . |
| 23 | That is why quantum theory did not make itself felt until physics had developed to a stage where minute systems of atomic dimensions could be probed and investigated . |
| 24 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 25 | That is why specialist units have to be shut down . |
| 26 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 27 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 28 | That is why Paul Gascoigne was , and I trust will be , so exciting and so different . |
| 29 | That is why London Association for the Blind extends its help to people throughout the country and is at work in your area . |
| 30 | That is why drug experiences are so varied . |