Example sentences of "[prep] why we " in BNC.

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2 Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’
3 If , however , you do not know who this person is , or might be , it would be more helpful if we were to give some indication of why we have introduced her into the conversation .
4 Meanwhile , there was the more urgent matter of why we had been followed .
5 If one believes that the universe will expand and then contract again , as the no boundary proposal seems to imply , this becomes a question of why we should be in the expanding phase rather than the contracting phase .
6 This is the explanation of why we observe that the thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time point in the same direction .
7 Yet another example of why we need regulation and licensing within the industry .
8 What my hon. Friend says is no doubt the kernel of why we need the Bill .
9 The question of why we want it is a psychological one , which we answer by much the same means .
10 The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done .
11 Cos if we have n't then all of our assumptions into why we 're doing things like auto-offs and it improves the outgoing costs and then we 've got better reta better information and better screens and all that sort of stuff , I mean it blows every single assumption we 've made in a way .
12 So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo .
13 Or instructions which advise the staff how a particular project , how a particular task is undertaken with guidance on why we do it .
14 These are by no means unusual examples , and Tannen spends a great deal of her paper speculating on why we do it .
15 I 've got a what do you me call on that roo , er an assembly on why we , why do we have rules .
16 oh , I mean er , I know we can have different opinions on why we think St John is so adamant that she must be his wife I do think it 's a power struggle .
17 I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything .
18 ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again .
19 ‘ Sulaiman put his case as to why we should fight Tucker first , and I put mine to him about a voluntary defence , and he replied that if that was Lennox 's wish , the WBC would do all in their power to grant it . ’
20 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 .
21 We stayed there for ten and a half years until 15 September 1991 , without ever having any explanation as to why we were being held .
22 Most of us should have some clues as to why we are as we are .
23 The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics .
24 I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already .
25 I 'd decided to pay cash rather than use the PKB Amex card as that would have given the game away as to why we were there .
26 ‘ Yeah , ’ she said without a flicker of suspicion as to why we were interested .
27 Well let's have a look at a few figures then , as to why we do need to consider it .
28 Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did .
29 Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it .
30 Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it .
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