Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] why the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US Congress the House banking committee , chaired by Henry Gonzalez , was one of a number of committees now investigating the question of why the US government 's Commodity Credit Corp . |
| 2 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 3 | This paper may be seen as an attempt to achieve the seemingly impossible in posing the question of why the Romano-Britons purchased vessels of local manufacture decorated with religious and other images in the third century . |
| 4 | Long-wave theories have devoted most attention to the question of why the bunching exists . |
| 5 | Because we do not know who owns Delion we do not know who bought the property , which raises the question of why the purchasers want to remain anonymous . |
| 6 | … ’ The implication that St Theresa reads the Scottish Catholic Observer is perhaps mischievous on my part , but it does raise the question of why the petition was not addressed to the saint directly and required publication to make it more efficacious . |
| 7 | That immediately poses the question of why the TCCB opted to concentrate on impressing the Test nations with large financial guarantees , instead of copying the logical example of the sub-Continent and targetting the associates ? |
| 8 | This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed . |
| 9 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 10 | It resolves the puzzle of why the Earth cooled even while the concentration of carbon dioxide was continuing to grow exponentially , and all it requires is a peak change in solar luminosity of just 0.28 per cent over the 76-year cycle , producing a maximum influence on surface temperatures on Earth of only 0.28°C . |
| 11 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 12 | ‘ The problem of why the galaxies do n't all pile in on top of each other . |