Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of why the " in BNC.
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| 1 | … ’ 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 . |
| 2 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 9 | Long-wave theories have devoted most attention to the question of why the bunching exists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Economists working in this field are attempting to find answers to the question of why the various estimates of NAIRU exhibit a persistent tendency to rise over time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem of why the galaxies do n't all pile in on top of each other . |
| 16 | Reason for Change : a description of why the change is needed and a justification of the requirements |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Later , when I visited the vice-chairman of the PCC , who is also the vicar 's warden , he could give me no explanation of why the candle was there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Wesley has an explanation of why the believer can not explain to the unbeliever what he or she has learned by faith . |
| 21 | There is hardly any need to begin a book on new technology with an explanation of why the topic is of such significance . |
| 22 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The universe would then go on to expand and cool just like the hot big bang model , but there would now be an explanation of why the universe was expanding at exactly the critical rate and why different regions had the same temperature . |