Example sentences of "of the reason [Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are anticipating a hard match , and that is one of the reasons why I am so pleased to have Bryan ( Robson ) back . |
| 2 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 3 | Granda 's fondness for alcohol is one of the reasons why I have never touched it in my life … although I do admit to having some rum sauce once . |
| 4 | This question indicates one of the reasons why I ask patients to answer questions as spontaneously as possible . |
| 5 | It 's one of the reasons why I tell you not to sit on benches because you 'll probably find the residues of ink along the edges even after the most careful clean up . |
| 6 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 7 | In a voluntary way a voluntary capacity working I mean in in this sense in my there is a sense of responsibility and I find that good and challenging which is perhaps one of the reasons why I like doing these courses because you you er a certain amount of stress and responsibility is is . |
| 8 | It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’ |
| 9 | In the past I used to have a , a class on psycho- history , and I dropped it , and one of the reasons why I dropped it was , the lit a lot of the literary was very poor quality , for a start , and erm , people , er , students , er got that too , and I could n't really blame them . |
| 10 | One of the reasons why I pressed the Minister to give an assurance about the link between Stratford and King 's Cross is that it is feared that money will not be available to build the link . |
| 11 | One of the reasons why I was in favour of televising the House and Committees was that I thought that it might be a good idea for the public to see Standing Committees , with Ministers doing their mail and others trying to hold up the business . |
| 12 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 13 | That is one of the reasons why I think that man is in much better shape than I think philosophy 's in . |
| 14 | Those are some of the reasons why I and many others support Save The Children and thank you Patricia Routledge for talking to us today , it was a pleasure listening to you . |
| 15 | That 's one of the reasons why I decided to get involved in the project in the first place when it was first broached to me . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's one of the reasons why I 'm so confident about what we 're planning on building . |
| 17 | ‘ Actually , Len , that 's one of the reasons why I 'm here — to talk about where you 're going when you get out of here . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They deserve that sort of commitment and that 's one of the reasons why I 'm stepping back — because you can not half do it . |
| 19 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 20 | helped them I often think , was that part of the reason why I was n't on ? |