Example sentences of "[is] why " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolutely , could n't agree more , that s why I was fucking astounded to see the headlines in the sunday papers saying GIGGS BACK TO HIS MAGNIFICENT BEST the little shit did fuck all . |
| 2 | That s why Bodins rating is nt rock bottom … he s Swindons pen taker ( so their highest scorer : - ) ) . |
| 3 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |
| 4 | Yes , that s why I said it was a bit worrying before . |
| 5 | That s why when a team gets knocked out of europe — invariably they do nothing in the league . |
| 6 | Sharpe used only speed to get past players … that s why you do nt see him go past players much anymore … cos he ca nt run fast enough . |
| 7 | This is why the normal period for a charitable covenant is 4 years . |
| 8 | This is why we are asking your church to link with ACET in a Christian response to AIDS both at home and overseas . |
| 9 | That is why the post-graduate course exists — to shape intellect and enthusiasm and provide practical and professional skills . |
| 10 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |
| 11 | Which is why I think naturalistic plays with domestic situations need very careful handling . |
| 12 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 15 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 16 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 17 | That is why it is important to work at night , he wrote . |
| 18 | That is why so few books on the middle game , he wrote , though plenty on openings and endgames . |
| 19 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 20 | That is why there has to be the big glass and the notes in the box , not the glass alone or the notes alone , but the box , with all my preliminary notes and measurements , all my plans and blueprints , and then the glass , with the end product of all those notes visible on its surface . |
| 21 | That is why the glass is dedicated to Diana . |
| 22 | That is why producing yet more images , he wrote , is like eating cardboard . |
| 23 | That is why only the glass will do it , wrote Harsnet . |
| 24 | That is why , he wrote , there have to be three stages , first the making of the glass , then the showing of the glass , and then the end . |
| 25 | That is why it had to be big . |
| 26 | That is why it needs to be transparent , I said . |
| 27 | ‘ Which , ’ continued his visitor , ‘ is why I am able to assist you with your enquiries . ’ |
| 28 | The reason is why I haue ask 'd you here . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |