Example sentences of "why [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report . |
| 2 | Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors , they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global . |
| 3 | Questions must also be asked about why the sprinter has only now , after five months of considerable time and expense from lawyers , advisers and athletics officials , revealed information that even Morphitis did not know about . |
| 4 | ‘ Ssssussann , ’ he said , wondering why the name meant so much to him . |
| 5 | Primary encopresis A full assessment of the reasons why the child has never achieved continence is required . |
| 6 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 7 | Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine . |
| 8 | When I visited the School of Mathematics , I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy . |
| 9 | The two men 's inability to make common cause illustrated one of the main reasons why the government had less to fear from oppositionists than the radical manifestos of 1861 – 2 appeared to suggest . |
| 10 | Under such circumstances , it is not at all clear which statutory agency should take the leading role in developing such therapeutic houses and homes , something perhaps which explains why the government has now proposed a specific grant for mental health services in the community which can only be spent by the joint agreement of local health and social services . |
| 11 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 12 | Coalitions have never worked in India , which is why the country has always returned to the comforting but damaging embrace of Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 13 | But at least as instructive is its analysis of why the problem has so burgeoned . |
| 14 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 15 | This still does not explain why the Conservatives fared so much worse than in 1985 . |
| 16 | ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight . |
| 17 | That is one of the reasons why the money spent so far has achieved so little . |
| 18 | It is not yet clear why the activity becomes so much more pronounced as the nucleus is approached , although there are several possible explanations . |
| 19 | These are some of the reasons why the Party devoted so much care to its favourite but weakling class in provincial Russia . |
| 20 | Miklós wanted to know why the Scots seemed more at ease as British than the Irish . |
| 21 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , that kind of writing went out of fashion almost instantly , and certainly in the nineteen twenties and thirties , was replaced by a completely different tradition , which has er , influenced our expectations and perhaps explains why the book seems so old fashioned . |
| 23 | This is one reason why the DSS has never paid this subsidy to single parent families . |
| 24 | Maus 's cartoon cross-cutting underlines , perhaps more vividly than any other medium could do , the truth of Vladek 's saying , when asked why the Jews offered so little resistance to the Germans : ‘ They could n't believe even what 's in front of their eyes … ‘ |
| 25 | That was why the Postman had so many dogs following him ! |
| 26 | The standard PC can be used for anything , which is why the manufacturers leave so much of the configuration and customization to the user ( that 's their story , anyway ) . |
| 27 | What still is n't clear is why the whales have recently started making use of this resource . |
| 28 | There are two reasons why the habit spread faster among the younger macaques . |
| 29 | I DO N'T KNOW WHY THE CAIRNGORMS HAVE NEVER TURNED ME ON . |
| 30 | It resolves the puzzle of why the Earth cooled even while the concentration of carbon dioxide was continuing to grow exponentially , and all it requires is a peak change in solar luminosity of just 0.28 per cent over the 76-year cycle , producing a maximum influence on surface temperatures on Earth of only 0.28°C . |