Example sentences of "why we have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more intellectual and sophisticated we become , the more we are tempted to assign all sorts of reasons to why we have contact with particular people . |
| 2 | Editor , — I was interested and depressed , but not surprised , to read Richard Smith 's editorial highlighting exactly why we have problems in attracting adequate candidates into academic surgery . |
| 3 | But also anomalies : a reader asks why we have Yorkshiremen but not Northamptonshiremen . |
| 4 | Indeed , some of them are , which is why we have beaches ! |
| 5 | Indeed , McIntyre analyses the reason why we have war memorials at all as the debt paid by the living to the dead , ‘ as a catharsis , a means of purging that guilt of the survivor ’ . |
| 6 | And not even enough money to repair the old generator , that 's why we have oil lamps . |
| 7 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
| 8 | Our children have a right to know why we have Christmas and Easter , crosses on war memorials and a coronation service ; why the centre of every English village is a parish church ; and why English literature resonates with Biblical imagery . |
| 9 | That 's why we have conferences and rallies and congresses and debates and shows and exhibitions . |