Example sentences of "that [be] why [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That s why Bodins rating is nt rock bottom … he s Swindons pen taker ( so their highest scorer : - ) ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But gender distinctions in the case of human referents are not arbitrary , and that is why Lyons , for instance , suggests that what is important in communication is the pronominal function of gender rather than the category of gender in general ( 1968 ) . |
| 4 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 5 | That is why Mrs Zamzam left Um Al-Farajh . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That is why sperm are strip-searched before being allowed into the egg . |
| 8 | That is why haste is everything . |
| 9 | That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship . |
| 10 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 11 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |
| 12 | But very few Englishmen came to know Aquitaine ; that is why Ralph of Diss took the trouble to include a lengthy description of the duchy and its inhabitants in his chronicle . |
| 13 | That is why specialist units have to be shut down . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That is why probate is delayed . |
| 16 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 17 | Cold-blooded animals have to ‘ warm up ’ before they can be fully active ; that is why lizards and snakes bask in the sun in temperate climates . |
| 18 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 19 | That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance . |
| 20 | That is why things have got to change and a Labour government is needed to bring about that change . ’ |
| 21 | That is why Paul Gascoigne was , and I trust will be , so exciting and so different . |
| 22 | That is why Paul likens marriage to the relationship between Christ and his Church . |
| 23 | That is why Paul was so angry and distressed when he heard of the divisions in the Christian church at Corinth . |
| 24 | That is why NUPE and the other unions have been so unwilling to negotiate sensibly on this aspect of the dispute . |
| 25 | That is why Irenaeus hit the Gnostics so hard , because they rejected this life as unimportant . |
| 26 | Perhaps that is why sounds are recognised more accurately ( Hublet , Morais and Bertelson , 1977 ) to the right of a subject and appear louder than sounds of equal intensity heard on the subject 's left ( Kellar , 1978 ; Wexler and Halwes , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | That is why surgery is needed to straighten it out as the muscle no longer responds . |
| 28 | That is why Britain 's Institute of Directors has this week been rudely attacking the government for allowing the business renaissance of the past decade to be ‘ torpedoed by runaway inflation ’ . |
| 29 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 30 | That is why Britain was the first country to give £20 million worth of feed grain . |