Example sentences of "why [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it very difficult to understand why governments spend so much money on military equipment . |
| 2 | This dichotomy leaves too many open questions about why firms differ so much in their handling of technology , or what ‘ really ’ determines technological performance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He says the tests did n't show up originally and that 's why things progressed so far . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reason why teams have only |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What would have happened if penicillin had not been discovered , or if years of patient research had failed to explain why sulphonamides acted only on a limited selection of microbes ? |
| 10 | There are innumerable reasons why albums take longer than expected to get into the shops . |
| 11 | Erm we wo n't go into a discussion about that this morning , but there are lots of reasons why females live longer on average than males . |
| 12 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 13 | We 'll find that the answer drops out once we have understood why organisms exist anyway . |
| 14 | That is why environmentalists have often clamoured for regulation , as the best way to conceal the true costs of policy . |
| 15 | Exploratory will give visitors the opportunity to discover why mirrors invert sideways but not up and down , to measure their heart rates while pedalling a bicycle and to re-enact Galileo 's experiments with falling weights on inclined planes . |
| 16 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |