Example sentences of "this [is] why " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why the normal period for a charitable covenant is 4 years . |
| 2 | This is why we are asking your church to link with ACET in a Christian response to AIDS both at home and overseas . |
| 3 | This is why collections by the provisionals in public houses were having partial success in the 1970s without too much interference by the Garda , the Republic 's police force . |
| 4 | This is why the worst risk of swinging and ground looping is always in calm or light wind conditions . |
| 5 | This is why people who want to build muscle have 4 or 5 smaller meals throughout the day . |
| 6 | This is why the idea of grinding a good gouge to a skew shape was never very popular . |
| 7 | This is why the same physical types and personalities are still represented amongst the students of professional schools . |
| 8 | This is why Bratfisch is so important . |
| 9 | This is why the devices can be both normally on or normally off . |
| 10 | This is why reviewing is not properly speaking criticism , though it calls for critical qualities , and an extended review-article , looking at a whole oeuvre , may well be . |
| 11 | This is why the Government 's present enthusiasm for volunteering is hard to stomach . |
| 12 | This is why Mr Mandela will not come out first , why the initial idea will be to test the waters with the lesser-known prisoners . |
| 13 | ( This is why , in the media , it has always been Tory governments that have created new radio or television channels , whether Radio Clyde , Granada Television , London Jazz Radio , or Channel Four . ) |
| 14 | This is why he does not cut them off , ’ said an aide to the Prince in Bangkok last week . |
| 15 | This is why a great deal of the best police research is based on the ethnographic methods of participant observation and in-depth interviewing , and why workers in several other unusual , off-beat , difficult , or demanding occupations have been studied ethnographically , such as lorry drivers ( Hollowell 1968 ) , coal-miners ( Dennis et al . |
| 16 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 17 | This is why transgressive reinscription should not be understood in terms of discrete transgressive acts which ‘ succeed ’ or ‘ fail ’ in some immediate sense . |
| 18 | This is why we must have our own shop stewards . |
| 19 | This is why it is so perplexing . |
| 20 | This is why jet-lag is not so marked after a flight in the north-south direction . |
| 21 | ‘ This is why food packaging products can only be 50% recycled . |
| 22 | He confesses this is why he 's started leaping out in uncharacteristic new directions which discomfit the regulars , playing with bright colours and polka dots when the world expects sludge and subtle stripes ad nauseam . |
| 23 | This is why the CIA during the 50s and 60s covertly supported a multitude of initiatives whose aim was to present the new American Art across the world as a promise for the future . |
| 24 | This is why the Campaign for Quality Television is calling for the money bid in the auction to go into programmes , rather than to the Treasury . |
| 25 | Maybe this is why I am treated as if I 've polluted the town 's water . |
| 26 | And this is why feminism helps everybody , to be slightly more relaxed about life . ’ |
| 27 | Poignancy ( and this is why its domain is the minor key ) is the exquisite meshing of two contradictory feelings . |
| 28 | This is why Morrissey ca n't ‘ develop ’ as an artist . |
| 29 | This is why noise groups invariably deal with subject matter that is anti-humanist — extremes of abjection , obsession , trauma , atrocity , possession — all of which undermine humanism 's confidence that through individual consciousness and will , we can become the subjects of our lives , and work together for the general progress of the commonwealth . |
| 30 | This is why noise and horror go hand in hand — because madness and violence are senseless and arbitrary ( violence is the refusal to argue ) , and the only response is wordless — to scream . |