Example sentences of "why such [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarissa tried not to be disarmed , tried to fathom why such self-denigration was being paraded so abjectly before someone who only last week had been a figure of insult and derision . |
| 2 | ‘ But why such contrivance ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why such concern ? |
| 4 | Why such fury ? |
| 5 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 6 | Why such flexibility or , to call it what it often was , why such ambiguity or downright duplicity ? |
| 7 | The National Health Service administrator may be critical of the doctor who is profligate in the use of equipment and resources and at the same time the doctor may resent having to' account for expenditure to the administrator who may lack the medical expertise to understand why such equipment and resources were used . |
| 8 | It was considered that , under the 1959 Act , an informal meeting of the licensing court prior to the statutory meeting to consider and authorise citations was competent , and there is no reason why such consideration under the 1976 Act should not take place under the provisions of s.15(2) . |
| 9 | We can only speculate as to why such ambivalence or hostility to markets persists . |
| 10 | Explain why such information is useful to these users . |
| 11 | The requirement is subject to the proviso that our client may give a valid reason why such notice should not be given . |
| 12 | The ICAEW Guidance notes dealing with changes in professional appointments ( date 1.85 ) require that we should notify the other accountants that we are undertaking the corporate finance work unless the client gives a valid reason why such notice should not be given . |
| 13 | ( This is a further reason why such arbitrage opportunities are available only rarely ) . |
| 14 | Polsky argues that this is the main reason why such research should not be covert . |
| 15 | There is no reason why such evil can not happen anywhere , and it is their ill luck that many of their children have suffered from it . |
| 16 | It is impossible to see why such protectionism will make the key players , Philips , SGS-Thomson and Siemens , more competitive against the Japanese firms , NEC and Toshiba , or the American Intel and Motorola . |
| 17 | Why such flexibility or , to call it what it often was , why such ambiguity or downright duplicity ? |