Example sentences of "[adj] to explain why [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain .
2 One can certainly understand a company in dire financial straits seeking cost cutting , but it is very hard to explain why the Banks should be embarking on this trend now .
3 Any interpretation should be able to explain why the decline came fifteen years later in the Southern Band than in the Northern Band .
4 Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light .
5 They 're unable to explain why the celebration turned to murder .
6 How many of my readers can give the answer to ⅜ ÷ 15/16 but are unable to explain why the answer is ⅖ ?
7 Mental health professionals will need to take note of the view of the Court that it is important to explain why a doctor who already knows the patient does not provide one of the medical recommendations upon which a section 2 admission ( and also a s.3 admission ) may be founded .
8 It is important to explain why the information is required .
9 It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way , except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us .
10 Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other .
11 Only by studying how each species coped with different levels of moisture , heat , light , etc. , was it possible to explain why the species flourished in one area but not in another .
12 Mr Rifkind is keen to explain why the railways should be opened up to competition and dampen all that dreadful speculation in the papers that there is a split between himself and the Cabinet over exactly how they 'll do it .
13 This in itself is sufficient to explain why the particles have not been observed previously .
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