Sentence examples for were to explain why from inspiring English sources

They were to explain why the police car that always sat outside the school every morning was absent on September 1 2004, the one day when it could have done so much more than ensure that pupils could cross the road safely.

BRILEY: The challenge was to explain why people followed Gandhi.

The challenge is to explain why this is happening in the absence of a speaker.

The primary purpose of a death certificate is to explain why we die.

What proved much harder for both was to explain why it had happened.

The point of this short, polemical book is to explain why.

His aim is to explain why terrorists do what they do.

All this is to explain why my interview may not be as sharp as usual.

The challenge would have been to explain why it had remained a secret.

"The way to defeat Ukip is to explain why they are wrong, not to hint that they might be right.

Hardest is to explain why the French have been unable to bring home two detained French journalists.