Example sentences of "why do so " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 Why do so many black cats have a few white hairs ?
3 Why do so many cat breeds come from the East ?
4 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 ?
5 Why do so many people apparently tell opinion pollsters one thing and then , in the sober setting of the voting cubicles , do another ?
6 Why do so many of us feel the need to test the water first ?
7 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
8 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
9 If meetings are potentially so useful , then why do so many go wrong ?
10 Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ?
11 Given the immense benefits of exercise , why do so many students try to avoid it ?
12 ( Why do so many comments made on children described as having special needs concentrate on their retention of arithmetic facts and algorithms ? )
13 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 ? ’
14 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 ? ’
15 Why do so many of us give up on diets ?
16 Why do so many suppliers of goods and services still rely on the services of middlemen ?
17 Why do so many people use that word as if it represents something ugly ? ’
18 Perhaps the first question to be answered is why do so many sedimentologists concentrate on sedimentary petrography ?
19 You never boggle at plain-speaking , so why do so now ?
20 Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland .
21 Why do so many governments , rich and poor , spend so much on weapons and military equipment which rapidly become obsolete , and which ordinary people throughout the world hope will never be used ?
22 Why do so many thousands of other commuters go through such daily torture without concluding , not only that another bridge is not the answer , but that it would increase traffic flows into Edinburgh ?
23 Why do so many governments , rich and poor , spend so much money on military equipment and weapons which rapidly become obsolete and which ordinary people throughout the world hope will never be used ?
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