Example sentences of "is [adv] why [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The problem here is rather why emancipation produced an agrarian solution satisfactory to neither gentry , peasantry nor to the prospects of a genuinely capitalist agriculture .
2 This is basically why glass ( W = 6 J/m 2 ) is brittle and steel ( W = about 10 5 J/m7sup2 ; ) is tough , although both these materials have roughly the same tensile strengths .
3 I think a lot of commentators were surprised when Arsenal paid so much money for Ian but his phenomenal strike-rate for them is probably why transfer prices have gone through the roof .
4 It is also why share prices are returning towards reality , and why many fear that property prices will soon do the same .
5 This is also why paint applications do n't have very good text handling , because once the text is on the image , it ca n't be edited again in the normal way , only as an area of colour .
6 And that , as Dr M. Thomas cogently points out , is precisely why calcium is so important .
7 The big question here is actually why Fender are using the Champ moniker for this 25 watt , channel switching , all-purpose tube amplifier , when previously ‘ Champ ’ has been a synonym for ‘ diminutive but pokey practice amp ’ .
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