Example sentences of "why they [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 2 | That 's why they 've been to the baths . |
| 3 | But as you say , switch off first and then still use a stick or something to get them away because it maybe the switch does n't work and maybe that 's why they 've been electrocuted in the first place . |
| 4 | Sandy must be having company , pulled the blind down I think that 's why they 've been good about the parking this week , cos I mean Irene 's pulled her car , we saw Irene pull her car in was you here when she I saw her get in it , it must of been teatime yesterday |
| 5 | Often these children had no idea why they had been sent away . |
| 6 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 7 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 8 | Scarlet still found the episode entirely mysterious , since she could think of no reason at all why they had been invited . |
| 9 | Minns said the new SPAs were welcome but he questioned why they had been given priority over the Cairngorms or the mudflats of the Solway Firth , " areas of enormous importance for wildlife which are under real and immediate threat " . |
| 10 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 11 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 12 | They 'd no idea why they 'd been so sick . |
| 13 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 14 | Briefing sessions , in which failures and why they occur are discussed , are probably best held with outside counsellors rather than company staff . |
| 15 | I find the serenity of mainstream forecasters in the face of their debâcle discreditable because they now gravely confuse the public discussion as they go on popping up with one optimistic forecast after another , without any meaningful explanation as to why they have been so wrong . |
| 16 | Consequently the professional should discuss what has happened with the parents and make quite certain they know exactly why they have been advised to adopt certain practices . |
| 17 | Hundreds of them are dumb , simple persons , caught in the web of law , unable to comprehend what has happened , what the charge against them is or why they have been sent to jail . |
| 18 | If the referees ' confidential comments disagree with their comments to the author then they are denying the authors useful feedback ; if both sets of comments agree should the editor not have to justify why they have been overruled ? |
| 19 | ‘ To facilitate them we have asked a number of show societies to provide judges with an opportunity to bring a selection of prize-winning animals back into the ring and explain why they have been considered champions . ’ |
| 20 | Get as much information as to why they have been put on that list . |
| 21 | Why they do is not clear , but the preference exists . |
| 22 | If the lumps are tumours , these are rarely infectious , and the reason why they appear is poorly understood . |
| 23 | Mass stranding of whales are quite common , as in East Anglia last autumn But why they happen is still a mystery |
| 24 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |