Example sentences of "why do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do over 35% of his increasing clientele return a second or more time to his school ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why do all the other flats take it so placidly for Heaven 's sake ? ’ |
| 3 | Why do all the hooligans seem to be on the row in front and the row behind me ? |
| 4 | Why do all the world 's bank depositors and borrowers not establish and use euro-markets in their own currencies ? |
| 5 | Why do all coin-ops have such damned silly plots ? |
| 6 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 7 | And why do all this ? |
| 8 | Why do all the court statements have " Criminal Justice Act 1967 sections 2 and 9 " printed on them ? " |
| 9 | ‘ Why do all foreigners think we wear those damned silly hats with corks ? ’ |
| 10 | Why do all these corridors look alike ? |
| 11 | Weak forms : ‘ DO ’ ( before consonants ) ‘ Why do they like it ? ’ ( before vowels ) ‘ Why do all the cars stop ? ’ |
| 12 | Also , why do so many franchised Land Rover agents give the impression that they would rather sell complete vehicles and not bother about spare parts ? |
| 13 | Why do so many black cats have a few white hairs ? |
| 14 | Why do so many cat breeds come from the East ? |
| 15 | If doubt is human and universal , why do so many Christians treat it as dark and unmentionable , a problem that gnaws at the mind like the suspicion of cancer or troubles the conscience like a guilty thought ? |
| 16 | Why do so many people apparently tell opinion pollsters one thing and then , in the sober setting of the voting cubicles , do another ? |
| 17 | Why do so many of us feel the need to test the water first ? |
| 18 | Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ? |
| 19 | Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ? |
| 20 | If meetings are potentially so useful , then why do so many go wrong ? |
| 21 | Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ? |
| 22 | Given the immense benefits of exercise , why do so many students try to avoid it ? |
| 23 | ( Why do so many comments made on children described as having special needs concentrate on their retention of arithmetic facts and algorithms ? ) |
| 24 | Similarly it was necessary to move the focus of interest from the question ‘ Why do so few women do physical science ? ’ to the related , but often unasked questions of ‘ Why do so few men take the humanities ? ’ 'Why do so many women choose English , rather than physics , or chemistry ? ’ 'What happens to those students who make these choices — particularly if their choice is unconventional ? ’ |
| 25 | Similarly it was necessary to move the focus of interest from the question ‘ Why do so few women do physical science ? ’ to the related , but often unasked questions of ‘ Why do so few men take the humanities ? ’ 'Why do so many women choose English , rather than physics , or chemistry ? ’ 'What happens to those students who make these choices — particularly if their choice is unconventional ? ’ |
| 26 | Why do so many of us give up on diets ? |
| 27 | Why do so many suppliers of goods and services still rely on the services of middlemen ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why do so many people use that word as if it represents something ugly ? ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps the first question to be answered is why do so many sedimentologists concentrate on sedimentary petrography ? |
| 30 | You never boggle at plain-speaking , so why do so now ? |