Example sentences of "[conj] why do we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
2 | And why do we bother doing one ? |
3 | And why do we do it in the cruellest possible ways ? |
4 | And why do we have to have double bass players featured ? |
5 | And why do we say that ? |
6 | Why are there wars and why do we fight . |
7 | But why do we do that ? |
8 | But why do we do the experiment then ? |
9 | Which is fair enough , but why do we go with him ? |
10 | Okay , but why do we get the , the main thrust of erm , to the economic argument seems to be that we ought to be liberalizing , we ought to be facing that erm , that problem . |
11 | But WHY do we believe that ? |
12 | But why do we have two eyes and not just one ? |
13 | Mum , but why do we have to . |
14 | But why do we need to do this ? |
15 | But why do we value a firm in terms of its liabilities rather than its assets ? |
16 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |