Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do we need a Christian response to AIDS ? |
| 2 | Why do we have to say that these thoughts are like mental actions ? |
| 3 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 5 | Why do we do it ? |
| 6 | Why do we get it ? |
| 7 | WHY DO WE FASTEN BOTTLES OF WINE WITH CORK ? |
| 8 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 9 | Why do we live in this hubbub ? |
| 10 | Why do we have rehearsals ? |
| 11 | WHY do we admire them so uncritically ? asks Semenyaka . |
| 12 | For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule . |
| 13 | Why do we take some things as natural , unavoidable , and others as socially shaped and changeable ? |
| 14 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 15 | Why do we spend such vast amounts of money on the service ? |
| 16 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why do we want everlasting stripes again ? ’ he said . |
| 18 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 19 | Why do we need economic growth ? |
| 20 | Why do we need teaching aids ? |
| 21 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 22 | WHY DO WE age and die , instead of staying young forever ? |
| 23 | Why do we want to make money ? |
| 24 | Why do we so seldom hear any of them apart from No. 2 in the concert hall ? ( ) |
| 25 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 26 | Why do we continue to talk about marriage as if it were a commonly understood state when these differences so obviously exist ? |
| 27 | But the question remains , why do we fall in love with one person rather than another when many potential partners are available ? |
| 28 | Why do we require so many staff to do no more than our competitors ? |
| 29 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 30 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |