Example sentences of "why [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why Patrick has never set much store by material things . |
| 2 | She could see why Ian did too . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm beginning to understand why Garry went overboard for you , ’ he said huskily . |
| 4 | That 's why Haliborange have just brought out a new Multivitamin Liquid containing essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs . |
| 5 | In fact she had wondered before why Johnny had always worn civvies , as he termed them , on his visits to the cottage . |
| 6 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 7 | Perhaps that is why Heather felt more at ease with the likes of you and I than with her family and the friends they chose for her . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why Simon had so many men with him . |
| 9 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 10 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 11 | ‘ It would , of course , ’ Theda agreed , able even in the pain he had caused her to understand now why Benedict had never trusted his godmother . |
| 12 | There 's some great games there , but why Tetris scored so highly I 'll never know . |
| 13 | Kosi shivered , seemingly unable to understand why Ace giggled softly . |
| 14 | We noticed this benefit in discovering why conventionalism does worse in coordinating social behaviour than pragmatism . |
| 15 | I find it very difficult to understand why governments spend so much money on military equipment . |
| 16 | ‘ Going out by the gun-room window , ’ said Thomas , ‘ which master announced to all of them was faulty , and that was why Rover slept there . ’ |
| 17 | Probably not in this essay as such , but in that area of Pound 's conversation of which this essay is a distillation , we find the reason — so I believe — why Yeats said admiringly of Landor in 1917 : ‘ He had in his Imaginary Conver - sations reminded us , as it were , that the Venus de Milo is a stone . ’ |
| 18 | It is hard to explain why confidence broke precisely when it did . |
| 19 | It explains why Stamford had so many churches , rather than the more common single church , as at Grantham and Newark . |
| 20 | The reasons why Dagenham performs so poorly are complex and partly historical . |
| 21 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 22 | But , I mean that 's why Victor came away was n't it ? |
| 23 | This dichotomy leaves too many open questions about why firms differ so much in their handling of technology , or what ‘ really ’ determines technological performance . |
| 24 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 25 | So the reason why males die more readily than females , and this is true for nature by the way , not just human levels , it 's a practical universal effect that the males die more readily than females , that males are ultimately selected for reproductive success for erm survival as such . |
| 26 | The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females . |
| 27 | He says the tests did n't show up originally and that 's why things progressed so far . |
| 28 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 29 | The reason why teams have only |
| 30 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |