Example sentences of "and why [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why spend money on fertilizers and ant poisons and petrol for the mowers and whitewash for the tennis court — and incidentally any stray rocks that need it — and why build great steaming compost heaps of the by-products of the above ? |
| 2 | If you wanted to indulge in dodgy puns ( and why stop now ? ) , you could say S&M was all about coming under pressure but the authorities are taking things too far . |
| 3 | And why stop at corporation tax ? |
| 4 | Why should GPs show discrimination against women ? and why emphasize married women with children ? |
| 5 | And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females ? |
| 6 | And why bother with all the political tension and uncertainty in the latest attempt to reduce local autonomy , which was detailed in Chapter 4 ? |
| 7 | Two questions that are frequently asked are : how can one tell a first edition ? and why bother with it anyway ? |
| 8 | And why bother to write anyway ? |
| 9 | I mean it was like years ago I heard things about Down 's children with holes in the heart and why bother to do it , but now everything 's changing — let's make them more normal . |
| 10 | And why bother baking a potato when a packet of crisps is to hand ? |
| 11 | Teaching must be alive and it can only be alive in the present moment — it is time-consuming to try to make stale bread palatable , and why bother when fresh bread is available ? |
| 12 | It means deciding where , when and why to say Yes . |
| 13 | And why does he look so happy as a result ? |
| 14 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 15 | And why does Parish Clerk Weekley not receive his quarter loaf every Sunday as is his right under Haberdasher Cleeve 's Will ? |
| 16 | I found myself frustrated by unanswered questions at every turn : why are the shields of Prince William and Harry blank in the College of Arms 's pedigree book — and why does Mark Phillips 's coat of arms have a horse jumping over a small white-flowered plant ? |
| 17 | And why does any star which is radiating energy not lose so much mass ( thanks to E=MC 2 ) that gravity can no longer hold it together ? |
| 18 | The results are dramatic — but how does the body become deficient in vitamin E , what is its role in human nutrition and why does its absence sabotage the nervous system ? |
| 19 | And why does Nick Baker always find things so very amusing on his Radio 4 series examining the backwaters of the magazine publishing world ? |
| 20 | The fashionable question ‘ How does the head office add value ? ’ would be clearer if it asked , ‘ When and why does a firmlet gain from being part of a company ? ’ |
| 21 | While Boss Vid , the usual hits package , can get irritating , and does n't answer any of the truly vital questions about The Shamen ( such as why are those headphone mics so annoying to look at , and why does the sight of Mr C turn grown men into sobbing rags ? ) it does have its moments . |
| 22 | And why does the process never fail ? |
| 23 | And why does the dominant class submit to leaving some of its economic interests thwarted so long as its political interests are satisfied ? |
| 24 | PJ turns his attention to the US government : ‘ What the fuck do these guys do all day and why does it cost so goddamned much money ? ’ |
| 25 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 26 | And why does this divergence of function and form exist at all ? |
| 27 | Right , and why does n't this happen with zinc plating , galvanizing ? |
| 28 | It 's carbon , it 's not being used as a fuel it 's just being chucked in , to do something with the with the iron ore and why does it put limestone in it ? |
| 29 | And why does he hide away on an island ? ’ |
| 30 | And why does he never leave the island ? ’ |