Example sentences of "ask why we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather we should begin by asking why we have a distinction between public and private law . |
| 2 | But also anomalies : a reader asks why we have Yorkshiremen but not Northamptonshiremen . |
| 3 | And , in more serious vein , David Corrigan , of Newport , asks why we ignored ‘ the coming environmental crisis [ that ] is more certain , and more real , than any of the speculative imaginings of your writers ’ . |
| 4 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 5 | I was asked why we can not suspend the law , and I have explained why that would not be possible . |
| 6 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 7 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 8 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman asked why we were introducing a Bill on this subject . |
| 10 | Mr asked why we should close our homes and let private homes profit erm , if people choose either to go into the private sector or to stay into their own homes , what are we supposed to do tell them they 've got no choice but to keep our substandard homes going ? |
| 11 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 12 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 13 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 14 | A canon may not be a bad thing in itself , but within the institution it is worthwhile for both staff and students to ask why we are studying these texts ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately , all the Government have done is to ask why we did not support the purchase of council houses or the provisions for grant-maintained schools . |
| 16 | Last night , the East German Foreign Ministry issued a statement attacking the attitude of the refugees : ‘ Some East German citizens will justifiably ask why we let these people emigrate to West Germany via East Germany , even though they had grossly violated our laws , ’ said the statement read as the main television news item . |
| 17 | You may well ask why we seem to be becoming a sick and overweight society . |
| 18 | The last words of his opening contribution say : I feel sure that the time will come when people will ask why we did n't do more in this day and age to preserve those wise traditions that form mankind 's lifeline with the profoundly mysterious laws of the universe . |