Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] why the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wesley has an explanation of why the believer can not explain to the unbeliever what he or she has learned by faith . |
| 2 | This is surprising given the demanding nature of the potential category , and at first sight disappointing , since it casts no light on why the youngest children ( 57 per cent success ) do so much worse at the task than the older children ( 86 per cent success ) . |
| 3 | In the US Congress the House banking committee , chaired by Henry Gonzalez , was one of a number of committees now investigating the question of why the US government 's Commodity Credit Corp . |
| 4 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 5 | Because we do not know who owns Delion we do not know who bought the property , which raises the question of why the purchasers want to remain anonymous . |
| 6 | Luckily , grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks , even if it started out with equal numbers of each . |
| 7 | In the vague reference to " his needs " in the last sentence we even get a glimpse of why the question of money is so important for him . |
| 8 | Offe 's account of the state has to be distinguished from ‘ capital derivative ’ versions and offers an account of why the state favours capital within capitalism by pointing out that as the state apparatus depends on revenues drawn from capitalist accumulation , it depends on stable accumulation for its own functioning . |
| 9 | ‘ Heshang ’ , translated as ‘ River Elegy ’ was written by three intellectuals , Su Xiaokang , Xia Jun and Lu Xiang who wanted to address the question of why the Chinese civilisation , once a world leader , declined so rapidly after the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed . |
| 11 | This paper may be seen as an attempt to achieve the seemingly impossible in posing the question of why the Romano-Britons purchased vessels of local manufacture decorated with religious and other images in the third century . |
| 12 | … ’ The implication that St Theresa reads the Scottish Catholic Observer is perhaps mischievous on my part , but it does raise the question of why the petition was not addressed to the saint directly and required publication to make it more efficacious . |
| 13 | It resolves the puzzle of why the Earth cooled even while the concentration of carbon dioxide was continuing to grow exponentially , and all it requires is a peak change in solar luminosity of just 0.28 per cent over the 76-year cycle , producing a maximum influence on surface temperatures on Earth of only 0.28°C . |
| 14 | That immediately poses the question of why the TCCB opted to concentrate on impressing the Test nations with large financial guarantees , instead of copying the logical example of the sub-Continent and targetting the associates ? |
| 15 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |