Example sentences of "why [pers pn] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's in the paper today saying why I now believe drug taking should be made legal , and er I think he er he 's absolutely right . |
| 2 | The author writes chattily from her own experience and is quite happy to tell of her own mistakes and why she now recommends what she does . |
| 3 | ENOUGH voters seem to have thought so , which is why we now have a Labour leadership contest . |
| 4 | This is why we now put ‘ Cichlasoma ’ in inverted commas — we have to call these fish something , and the parentheses indicate that the name we are using is not a correct scientific one . |
| 5 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 6 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 7 | In 1242 Geoffrey de Langelegh was summoned by the abbot of Glastonbury to explain why he now had ‘ one hundred and fifty goats and twenty oxen and cows beyond the number which he and his ancestors were wont always to have , to wit , sixteen oxen only ’ . |
| 8 | Explaining why he now supports the Grand Slam Cup , after refusing to compete a year ago , he said ‘ I have my word to the ATP that I would do everything I signed to do in my contract with them . |