Example sentences of "why it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why it had all happened . |
| 2 | For a moment , for the first time in his life , he began to realize why his grandfather had never lost his love of Mother Russia , why it had always been in his blood . |
| 3 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |
| 4 | Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that . |
| 5 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 6 | No one would explain why it seemed so important . |
| 7 | To explain why it does so is quite another matter . |
| 8 | Yeah , I du n no why it does actually . |
| 9 | The reason why it becomes more pronounced in some patients remains unanswered . |
| 10 | Because the body clock tends to ‘ run slow ’ , advancing it is more difficult and this explains why it takes longer to adapt ( see Table 11.3 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't know why there are these remissions or why it strikes again . |
| 12 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 13 | In fact it is more of a puzzle to work out why it took so many decades to become established ( Hatton 1986 ) . |
| 14 | But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , . |
| 15 | Well I just wondered why it goes there , in |
| 16 | Yeah that 's why it got probably |
| 17 | It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity . |
| 18 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 20 | That 's why it looks so awful down there . |
| 21 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 22 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 23 | I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there . |
| 24 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 25 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 26 | This is why it seems sociologically useful to distinguish between main and marginal cults . |
| 27 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 28 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 29 | ( That is why it seems more reasonable to say ‘ I went to work in my pyjamas ’ than ‘ I went to work in my clothes ’ . ) |
| 30 | A more thorough analysis suggests that , although professional incompetence and ‘ personality conflicts ’ were certainly involved , in every case there were also some very genuine reasons why it proved so difficult to work harmoniously together . |