Example sentences of "why [vb base] we [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Why do we generally make wine from grapes rather than any other fruit ? |
2 | But if our views are coloured by prejudice and familiarity , why do we already eat many foodstuffs that in theory should be much harder to swallow ? |
3 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
4 | Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ? |
5 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
6 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
7 | Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ? |
8 | Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ? |
9 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
10 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
11 | Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ? |
12 | Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ? |
13 | So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ? |
14 | Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ? |
15 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |
16 | After glasses had been refilled one of us — Tony , I think — said , ‘ Why do we just talk about it ? |
17 | Why do we even come to the Netherlands ? |
18 | I 'd still go out and do the same tomorrow , but it makes you wonder why do we really bother because we 're not getting the backing we need . |
19 | Why do we always argue about fishing rights and seem to have very little argument about oil ? |
20 | Why the criticism , and why do we often get things wrong ? |
21 | But it 's just a foul old tip , Ruth thought ; why do we still have to come here ? |
22 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |
23 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
24 | Well why do we then shove it in a stupid s four o'clock job ? |
25 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |