Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] why it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comparison with pictures may explain why it could be more effective to modify exact sound-symbol relationships with rule-based conventions in spelling . |
| 2 | In other words Africa may have remained close to the region of major sub-lithospheric heating which preceded the breakup of Pangaea and this may explain why it has a high mean elevation today in spite of lacking significant orogenic belts . |
| 3 | Additionally , he abhors the misuse of punishment , and emphasises that the punishment must be just , and the horse must understand why it is being punished . |
| 4 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 5 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 6 | Er I 'll explain why it happened an and then perhaps you 'll hopefully find that you can forgive me , and er then I 'll go on and say one or two of the things that I was gon na say this morning but er did n't . |
| 7 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 8 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 9 | Pand it 's actually pan dee mon ium which is quite interest I could n't work out what it really meant , pan demon , across demons , well that does n't make much sense but you 'll see why it 's called pandemonium , in the conventional sense , model . |
| 10 | This is not expected in the implementation of say health and safety improvements to sites , so one might ask why it should apply to measures designed to mitigate the physical impact of operations on nearby residential areas , and to ensure proper restoration and aftercare . ’ |
| 11 | They could explain why it was rational like for migrants to migrate even in the a even in the presence of high unemployment . |
| 12 | Oh , he could see why it was important for Meg not to know ; she responded to things in a different way from him . |
| 13 | Charles could see why it had appealed to Alex Household . |
| 14 | One may wonder why it is necessary to fit such a ‘ bluff ’ unit when a proper working alarm could be constructed for little extra outlay . |
| 15 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 16 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 17 | No one would explain why it seemed so important . |
| 18 | That would explain why it appears in half the songs , which apparently deal with starvation , AIDS and the end of the world along the way , although we 'll have to take the press release 's word for that . |
| 19 | His Mum and Dad would wonder why it was open but they 'd most likely think that they had forgotten to lock it . |
| 20 | Perhaps now teenagers — brainwashed as they have been by teen magazines , TV programmes and pop stars who all glamorise sex — will understand why it is so much wiser to wait . |
| 21 | The House has already had three days of debate on the Bill , so hon. Members will understand why it is so important . |
| 22 | Until someone can explain why it makes sense for individuals to maintain personal equity portfolios , the odds are that the selling will continue . |
| 23 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 24 | And when he does his invention calmly and equitably becomes part of everyday life and no one can understand why it was n't always there . |
| 25 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |
| 26 | ‘ So much for a career as a burglar , though I can understand why it might appeal . ’ |
| 27 | You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate . |
| 28 | You can see why it was a good idea . |
| 29 | so you can see why it 's pretty nasty |
| 30 | Provided there is a demand for bank lending at a profitable rate of interest , we can see why it will always be difficult for the authorities to control monetary expansion . |