Example sentences of "why [be] it that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’
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 So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ?
7 Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ?
8 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 ?
9 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 ?
10 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 ?
11 That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ?
12 Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ?
13 Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ?
14 ( Why is it that American Football , an infinitely more static , convoluted sport should draw such paeans of admiration from the same sportswriters who condemn rugby union matches for being dull and boring ?
15 Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ?
16 Why was it that other women did n't mind ?
17 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 ?
18 Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ?
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