Example sentences of "[conj] why do the " in BNC.

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1 While Boss Vid , the usual hits package , can get irritating , and does n't answer any of the truly vital questions about The Shamen ( such as why are those headphone mics so annoying to look at , and why does the sight of Mr C turn grown men into sobbing rags ? ) it does have its moments .
2 And why does the process never fail ?
3 And why does the dominant class submit to leaving some of its economic interests thwarted so long as its political interests are satisfied ?
4 If the situation is as the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) describes it , why has the number of applicants to advanced education increased and why does the number of admissions to universities and polytechnics show a substantial increase ?
5 And why does the thief want or need to take the " keys " ?
6 And why does the Labour Party in always want to level things down ?
7 Why were they interested in those topics which they chose to emphasize , and why did the work of certain authors , especially that of Lewis Henry Morgan , gain such prominence in their thinking ?
8 Why was it built in the way it was and why did the engineering world show so little interest in it ?
9 What was happening , and why did the super-powers collide just here and just now ?
10 And why did the impact of his presence provoke such an undeniable response in her when , earlier , she had felt that she had everything under control ?
11 And why did the air fares to Florence total in excess of six hundred pounds each ?
12 And why did the band have to choose that precise moment to play a waltz so that , rather than dancing apart in the modern way , he was drawing her closer , moulding her to the lean , taut length of him ?
13 But why does the body burn so much energy when it gets rid of infection ?
14 But why does the otter not take advantage of this sense of security to launch an attack ?
15 ‘ Well , apparently Horne , for example , recognised the seed cake as a death threat , but why does the crude drawing of a ship hold such terrors for him and others ? ’
16 But why do the pair leave out two verses of the latter ?
17 But why do the other animals , seeing the pigs hoodwink them every time a commandment is altered , still accept their right to lead ?
18 But why did the keys fall faster than the paper ? ’
19 She said : but why did the Germans hate the Jews ?
20 But why did the face in the picture have that cruel , unkind mouth ?
21 Selden could not choose to live anywhere else , but why did the other man live in such conditions ?
22 But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ?
23 But why did the carnyx end up buried in Banffshire ?
24 But why did the speaker deliberately produce an utterance which required reformulation ?
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