Example sentences of "why [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a short service of prayer , she wanted to know why half a lady should want to materialise in her kitchen . |
| 2 | There is every reason why such a decision should be included in the classification of decisions which are appealable as of right . |
| 3 | With respect to the Secretary of State , I believe that most right hon. and hon. Members found very unconvincing his explanation as to why such a provision could not form part of the Bill . |
| 4 | While I have no reason to believe that this was the case in respect of Wilson , or indeed any senior member of the Labour Party , I can understand why such a person would be reluctant to try to abort the inquiry . |
| 5 | Why such a church should become redundant is easily understood . |
| 6 | It is not clear why such a threat should be regarded as inadequate , nor does Professor Williams indicate the circumstances in which a threat to withhold a benefit to which a woman is entitled should suffice . |
| 7 | I ca n't begin to explain why such a pursuit should be enjoyable . |
| 8 | The UK has never operated on the basis of giving subsidised loans ( as in France ) instead of capital grants for investment schemes , though there is no reason why such a system should not be instigated . |
| 9 | Our survey of local pensioners revealed a number of reasons why such a scheme would be inconvenient . |
| 10 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 11 | Why such a note should appear on this sort of document is not altogether clear , but if the above interpretation of Unver 's note is correct , and if his reading of Molla Yegan 's is accurate , it would appear that the note could not have been written before 845 . |