Example sentences of "why it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different . |
| 2 | Its discursive variety and complexity is one of the reasons why it imitates the social world with a verisimilitude unequalled by other literary forms . |
| 3 | The court concluded this part of its judgment by explaining why it regarded the discretionary powers of the trial judge as insufficient to safeguard against an abuse of the power of interrogation , and by stating , at p. 740 : |
| 4 | That 's why it needs the extra lanes . |
| 5 | At the end of your editorial ( ‘ Starting again ’ , 17 April ) you make the point that the Labour Party has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the recent election and this is a good reason to put back the choice of a new leader . |
| 6 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |