Example sentences of "why [pers pn] are so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know why you are so jumpy , Mama , but you must n't think you are the only one who is being put out . |
| 2 | Apart from the above , FACE 44 demonstrates page after page why you are so important . |
| 3 | There must be another reason why you are so sad , ’ he said , looking kindly at me . |
| 4 | Think about why you are so angry . |
| 5 | What interests me is why you are so determined to find a scapegoat for your own inner fears . ’ |
| 6 | And I 'm confident that I know that one reason why you are so upset at this moment is because you realize you made such an awful fool of yourself , have n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Is this why you are so unhappy ? ’ |
| 8 | This is why you are so pale ? ’ |
| 9 | We would be foolish to leave God out of our reckoning , never taking time to consider deeply why we are so restless with desire . |
| 10 | Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this … |
| 11 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 12 | One of the reasons why we are so ill-informed is that massive amounts are spent by the food industry advertising refined and heavily processed foods which often contain empty calories and excessive amounts of fats , sugars and salt . |
| 13 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 14 | That is why we are so opposed to the system that charges the richest person in Westminster only £273 a year but the poorest person in Wigan £339 a year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't understand why they are so bashful , ’ he added . |
| 17 | Joshua 6 and the rest are most readily understandable , and that is precisely why they are so alarming . |
| 18 | For most tumours , however , the genetic blueprint is normal , and two events are therefore required to knock out both copies of the relevant gene before a tumour arises , which is why they are so rare . |
| 19 | People can live for years with a small gas leak and never notice anything but always wonder why they are so tired . |
| 20 | Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ . |
| 21 | You can see why the bird needs such a spread of toes to keep balance , but also why they are so springy . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , certain facts about rights , more easily , if not solely , expressible in the language of claims and claiming , are necessary to a full understanding of what rights are and why they are so vitally important . |
| 23 | I do n't know why they are so strict , because a lot of the screws are lesbians . |
| 24 | That 's why they are so keen . |
| 25 | Such imaging centres have always been a part of the American scene , another reason why they are so much more advanced in their presentations technology than we are , but until very recently the only major European one was in Brussels . |
| 26 | There are three prime reasons why they are so important . |
| 27 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |