Example sentences of "why they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 2 | There 's no reason why they should n't be able to develop their own dishes . |
| 3 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
| 4 | The behaviour of some modern gliders during take-offs and landings is very different to most of the training gliders , and it is vital to understand why they are more prone to swinging . |
| 5 | Tell your children why they are necessary and explain how the dose is carefully worked out . |
| 6 | the most often scored techniques , explaining why they scored |
| 7 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 8 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 9 | Nor is it clear why the events in the cerebral cortex should count as a terminus ; why they — rather than other events up- or down-stream — should constitute the perception . |
| 10 | What about a feature on ‘ Where are they now ’ with comments on why they did not continue on the circuit . |
| 11 | Segura believes that players must have enough pride when they lose to find out why they lost . |
| 12 | Secondly , they should decide in what manner and why they are so performed to give appropriate expression and sustain a style throughout the whole design . |
| 13 | It also needs a brief explanation of how and why they make their entrances and exits . |
| 14 | There are plenty of reasons why they should ban us . |
| 15 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 16 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 17 | There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’ |
| 18 | No wonder their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a grin at the end as a cluster of Northampton committee men tried to work out why they had also travelled with little sense of direction , wit , wisdom or work rate . |
| 19 | Why They Do It , by Jackboot Colophon . |
| 20 | However , while returning home with the Cup might not quite be an occasion for breaking out the ticker tape and launching into an orgy of street parties , it would be nice to see England do well , and there is no reason why they should not . |
| 21 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 22 | But I do n't see why they should be asked to shoot themselves in the foot by paying to train a competitor 's workforce , and neither do they ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't understand why they are so bashful , ’ he added . |
| 24 | Attilla The Stockbroker , a suitably offensive looking poet-comedian , took to the stage to tell an unusually large Sunday night crowd why they were there . |
| 25 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 26 | The same faith provides China 's leaders with their only explanation and justification for why they sent tanks to crush student protesters who had hurt no one and damaged nothing . |
| 27 | This explains the anomaly of why these questions were asked by people who already knew she was Catholic , and why they were periodically asked in different ways throughout the year of field-work , for they are the means for establishing and then reconfirming and testing the typification . |
| 28 | Quite apart from educational and other handicaps , this was one reason why they and even their social betters took so little part in government , leaving it so often to Balts or Germans before 1917 , and to other non-Russians after that date . |
| 29 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 30 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |