Example sentences of "why [vb mod] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should we refuse medical treatment to people who are suffering medically compared to other people who say , who need a heart transplant , or a kidney transplant ? |
| 2 | If all men are human beings , why should we need two categories instead of one ? |
| 3 | So why should we have new boundaries . |
| 4 | So therefore Mr Deputy Speaker in conclusion , what I 'd say to the minister is , number one do we really need this order at all ? because why should we have extra seats just because Germany are getting more . |
| 5 | Why should we have bloody machines doing work when human beings should be doing it ? |
| 6 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 7 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 8 | Why should they make this journey of three and a half thousand miles , just to lay their eggs and by doing so commit their young to make a similar journey in reverse to find their feeding grounds ? |
| 9 | ‘ Please , ca n't you do something for us ; we are nothing , the least of things , why should anyone pay any attention to us ? |
| 10 | And if she has already enjoyed the satisfaction of having climbed to a new standard of proficiency , higher than she has been before , why should she care one way or another to know that others have not yet reached this standard ? |
| 11 | Why should she have this power over him ? |
| 12 | Pope John 's ‘ optimism ’ was later criticized — why should he ignore apocalyptic signs of disaster to concentrate on those that gave grounds for hope ? — but hope was in such short supply in 1961 that his words were eagerly seized upon ( Moltmann , 1977 , p. 368 , n. 64 ; The Extraordinary Synod of 1985 likewise gave a more ‘ pessimistic ’ reading of the ‘ signs of the times ’ ) . |
| 13 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 14 | There was little that could be done to improve the overall unkempt appearance , except to dig the whole lot up and start again , but , as Luther Reynolds told David on one occasion , ‘ I do n't use the bloody garden , so why should I waste precious money on it ? |
| 15 | Why should I imagine any harm had come to them ? |
| 16 | Why should I believe these people that one small grey lump which they showed me on a screen is a threat to my life ? |
| 17 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 18 | Why should I take this award ? |
| 19 | Why should I support mock interviews ? |
| 20 | ‘ And why should you show such concern over your current girlfriend 's past affair ? |
| 21 | And from a school 's point of view , he felt that ‘ if someone will come to your doorstep to demonstrate , why should you ignore this service and travel to their doorstep ? |
| 22 | But if you know them why should you put Dear sir ? |
| 23 | So why should you have less memory ? |
| 24 | Why , why might we expect structural change to occur in this example ? |
| 25 | ‘ So why 'd she say that thing about ferrets ? ’ inquired Sam further . |
| 26 | and there 's this woman called Lassie , and this , this other man was talking to er this other man and he goes why 'd you call that woman Lassie ? |
| 27 | Why would they leave those poles ? |
| 28 | When costs are so profitable why would they need full-time employees , they can just have us stood at the door any d any g at the gate any week they want , begging for a day 's work . |
| 29 | Why would they need another junction box there then ? |
| 30 | She liked me , I could tell ; otherwise why would she make such efforts to demonstrate that she was n't interested ? |