Example sentences of "that [be] why [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why licence powers are being used to control it and why this Bill , soon to go to Committee , will give the director general still more powers , should he want to use them . |
| 2 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 3 | That is why quantum theory did not make itself felt until physics had developed to a stage where minute systems of atomic dimensions could be probed and investigated . |
| 4 | That is why haste is everything . |
| 5 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 6 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |
| 7 | That is why specialist units have to be shut down . |
| 8 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 9 | That is why probate is delayed . |
| 10 | That is why surgery is needed to straighten it out as the muscle no longer responds . |
| 11 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 12 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 13 | That is why drug experiences are so varied . |
| 14 | That is why privatisation is essential . |
| 15 | That is why selection for housing is based on housing need not on financial need , that 's the point , that 's why you do it according to housing need , not for money because the money side has been neutralised . |
| 16 | And that is why Misery is alive in the world today . |
| 17 | That is why South Glamorgan had an extra 10 per cent . |
| 18 | That is why metaphor is so useful to communicate the experiential world of the people to the reader . |
| 19 | That is why smell is so important to quadrupeds ; erect animals with good eyesight can detect danger from far off . |
| 20 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | That is why section 15(1) is needed and why it is best to prosecute under that provision in cases where deception is alleged to have been practised . |
| 22 | That is why valuation , under the old rating system , was a most inexact science . |
| 23 | That is why Resolution 242 contains no condemnation of Israel . |
| 24 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 25 | That is why condition ( 2 ) is necessary . |
| 26 | That is why Bible study should never be dull for a Christian . |
| 27 | That is why power boat owner David Peaks opted for a five-door turbo diesel Mitsubishi Shogun — rival to the Range Rover — after a succession of diesel Land-Rovers . |
| 28 | That is why training in managing meetings may be helpful . |
| 29 | That is why time and again in the New Testament he is linked with hope . |
| 30 | That is why covering yourself with a Legal & General Home and Personal Insurance Policy makes sound , common-sense . |