Example sentences of "why be it [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But why is it fifteen hundred pounds ? |
2 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
3 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
4 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
5 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
6 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
7 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
8 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
9 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
10 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
11 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
12 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |