Example sentences of "why [vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why d' ya go if you do n't believe in it ? |
| 2 | Why d' ya ask whether I know anything about her ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why d' you come if you hate the noise they make ? |
| 4 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 5 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | WHY DO WE age and die , instead of staying young forever ? |
| 8 | To return to the arrow of time , there remains the question : Why do we observe that the thermodynamic and cosmological arrows point in the same direction ? |
| 9 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 10 | The present unfair , first past the post system favours Labour most of the time , so why do they complain when it goes against them ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why do they smoke or drink or bet ( or breathe ) ? ' |
| 12 | Why do they differ and which is best ? |
| 13 | ‘ So why do you care that I was with her that night ? ’ |
| 14 | Why do you think that these girls come to London , in the first place ? |
| 15 | Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ? |
| 16 | Questioner : Why do you think that Saturdays and football is better than school ? |
| 17 | Why do you think that happened ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | Why do you think that direct file organization is less used than some other file organization techniques ? |
| 19 | ( a ) From your reading of the extract , why do you think that the historian has selected only these particular facts for his narrative ? |
| 20 | Erm in ter in terms of the erm crime why do why do you think that there is so much crime here ? |
| 21 | Rather than just saying ‘ It 's rubbish ’ at the start , asking ‘ Why do you think that it 's rubbish ? ’ |
| 22 | Why do you think that sort of thing goes in books ? ’ |
| 23 | Okay what what do you think now you 're you 're you 're you 're a hairdresser of some standing in London , why do you think that men get so hung up about all of this kind of hair ? |
| 24 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 25 | Why do you think that he said said to court he was gon na go for ? |
| 26 | Why do you think that most of the people in this room do n't read newspapers ? |
| 27 | Right , go on , why do you agree , why do you think that there 's too much coverage of the Gulf ? |
| 28 | Now , Robert Maxwell has not responded in the past , why do you think that now he 'll respond to er these new moves ? |
| 29 | ‘ And why do you assume that I wo n't be willing to assist you ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why do you believe that a computer system is inappropriate for your business ? ’ |