Example sentences of "[to-vb] why it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 3 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 4 | To explain why it does so is quite another matter . |
| 5 | 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 . |