Example sentences of "be why [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question is certain to be why commission income of about £70 million a year from timber felling is not more than £80 million . |
| 2 | This could be why Jack Gibbons , the president 's science adviser , recently sent a letter to Mr Goldin insisting that the Russians should not be the focus of the redesign effort . |
| 3 | That may be why Mr Houghton has given the job of turning round the kitchenware business to Richard Dulude . |
| 4 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 5 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 6 | The behaviour of physical , nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it , which is why physics books are full of mathematics . |
| 7 | This is why video makers who wish to run third generation copies off second generation edited masters use super-format tapes for all their work . |
| 8 | That is why licence powers are being used to control it and why this Bill , soon to go to Committee , will give the director general still more powers , should he want to use them . |
| 9 | Deep down , Gould remains a conservative on constitutional matters , which is why Robin Cook is backing Smith with an easy conscience . |
| 10 | ‘ And that , actually , is why Lord Cromer suspended all delegated powers of virement . |
| 11 | This is why futures contracts are known as derivative securities , because they are derivative on the underlying cash market good . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is why noise control should be taken into consideration at the design stage . |
| 14 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 15 | Which is why Gordon Green , landlord of the Newadd Arms in Llanwrtyd Wells , decided after refereeing one such ‘ discussion ’ that it should be settled by an annual race over a 22-mile cross-country course through the hills and forests above the mid-Wales village . |
| 16 | The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . |
| 17 | Certainly it has exhausted the works explicitly credited to Carver in the great Scone Choirbook , and I suppose that is why Dr Elliott remarks , in connection with Pater Creator Omnium , that any music which ‘ may have intervened between the Mass Fera Pessima … and this work is sadly lost ’ . |
| 18 | That is why Paul Gascoigne was , and I trust will be , so exciting and so different . |
| 19 | That is why London Association for the Blind extends its help to people throughout the country and is at work in your area . |
| 20 | This is why union meetings and Labour Party meetings are always conducted in a haze of smoke — or were , until my local party banned it . |
| 21 | That is why South Glamorgan had an extra 10 per cent . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is why US writers on the state have paid such attention to action . |
| 23 | This , as we have seen , is why liver cells are different from brain cells , and bone cells are different from muscle cells . |
| 24 | This is why Hugh Clifford , who was as committed as anyone to indirection , could come to Northern Nigeria in 1921 and be appalled by the state of administrative dereliction which he found there . |
| 25 | That is why drug experiences are so varied . |
| 26 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 27 | That is why quantum theory did not make itself felt until physics had developed to a stage where minute systems of atomic dimensions could be probed and investigated . |
| 28 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 29 | That is why Mrs Zamzam left Um Al-Farajh . |
| 30 | This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country . |