Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Aldington was asked why the Yugoslavs had not been told their destination before repatriation . |
| 2 | ‘ We all know Mozart is remembered when the emperors he wrote music for are not , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Ten years later Professor Marsh was asked why the faculty refused to elect Ramsey to a lectureship . |
| 4 | Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors , they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global . |
| 5 | While zoos have limitations in what they can ever achieve , Belfast is demonstrating how the modern zoo is thinking of the welfare of its animal population first and the possible benefits to conservation of its work . |