Example sentences of "[v-ing] why they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the EC 's other governments will soon have to start explaining why they deny their voters a remedy for recession that has proved so effective . |
| 2 | This is the second talk in a series following the history , sort of Victorian fashion , but not just what people wore but hopefully explaining why they wore it , both the actual manufacturing , physical why they wore it and perhaps some of the psychological reasons behind the changing fashion . |
| 3 | the most often scored techniques , explaining why they scored |
| 4 | Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do . |
| 5 | These faults can be cured by a determined reformer who ( a ) draws people 's attention to the offending forms , explaining why they offend , and then ( b ) suggests an alternative form that people can use instead . |
| 6 | Those who would like to be considered for the 1992 placement should send their curriculum vitae , together with a covering letter explaining why they feel they would benefit from the scheme , and enclosing samples of written work , to Chemistry in Britain at the RSC , Burlington House , Piccadilly , London W1V 0BN . |
| 7 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 8 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 9 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 10 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 11 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 12 | Indeed , but the impression remains stronger than the denial and one is left wondering why they chose 1950 as the cut-off point , if not to put a comfortable distance between ‘ then ’ and ‘ now ’ : the dark ages of the past and present enlightenment , which they rightly insist is illusory . |
| 13 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 14 | These men are bitterly wondering why they have not had more thanks for nursing Hungary towards democracy . |
| 15 | ‘ I was wondering why they talk of possessing women , ’ said Lydia . |
| 16 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 17 | In this chapter we shall be considering some of these ‘ natural ’ shocks to the system of marriage and asking why they upset some people and are the making of others . |
| 18 | Women on our courses who have both a boy and girl are now finding daughters rebelling and asking why they have to do everything when their brother does little or nothing . |
| 19 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 20 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 21 | Over the next few weeks there will be other highly-regarded Scottish companies showing why they have that reputation — for instance , the Bank of Scotland and Scottish & Newcastle , to name but two . |