Example sentences of "why [vb mod] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should a real man lock himself away from such pleasures , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , why should a successful man , who could doubtless have any woman he fancied , be interested in her — plain Alice Pritchett from a simple working-class background ? |
| 3 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 4 | Why should a future leader of the Liberal Party throw up that possibility in order to be a curate , whose work in popular mythology ( and sometimes in reality ) consists in having cups of tea with elderly women ? |
| 5 | Why should a multi-plant corporation close one plant rather than another ? |
| 6 | Why should a mixed bag of businesses perform better under the direction of a headquarters team , rather than as individual firms responding to external commercial pressures ? |
| 7 | Why should a public body operate in a secret way . |
| 8 | Firstly , why should a voluntary arrangement have to mimic an Administration Order ? |
| 9 | Why should a potential person have the rights of a person ? |
| 10 | Why should the nonsensical Nationalization — Privatization ping-pong of English politics be copied in Ireland ? |
| 11 | Why should the primary sufferer want to seek recovery if the quality of life without alcohol or drugs or other addictive substance or process is going to be no better than that of the family member ? |
| 12 | But why should the thermodynamic arrow of time exist at all ? |
| 13 | Why should the southern oscillation have flipped , bringing El Nino in May rather than October or November ? |
| 14 | Why should the Roman Church in Constantine 's time have adopted such a position , theologically so scandalous ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why should the poor Russians be left out in the cold ? |
| 16 | Why should the poor child be pushed into the world , having been given no choice , no option , no chance of refusal ? |
| 17 | Why should the other classes in the formation put up with it ? |
| 18 | Why should the great mass of believing Christians in fact know less about the figure they worship than about historical figures of far less relevance ? |
| 19 | Erm , indeed the first one was why should , why should the new settlement be located close to Greater York , I think the main main ans the answer to that is of course that York is the main centre in population , and employment in the county , by far . |
| 20 | Why should the first use of ‘ Here ’ bask in the reflected glory of the second , granted that the first serves to inform others of my whereabouts only in virtue of their being able to locate sounds ? |
| 21 | We feel it is now right and proper that the debate is to be had and that our roots , our heritage and our future are defended on our terms and in our forums and not in the editorials of Sunday newspapers , and as for les people 's letters to the newspapers , and Kinnock and co saying to people , individual members , why should the Labour Party not trust you with the choice of your candidate , it is you who do the work to get them elected , who are they kidding ? |
| 22 | Why should the individual taxpayer , as opposed to taxpayers as a whole , bear the burden of government 's mistake ? |
| 23 | Why should the working-class housewife say she ‘ likes ’ or ‘ does n't mind ’ housework — why should this be the typical response ? |
| 24 | If Stagecoach has sold it , why should the contemptible consumers of bus services not just be left to suffer from market forces imposed on them by the Government through privatisation ? |
| 25 | Why should the little sod laugh ? |
| 26 | Why should the Tory party not pay for its own advertising out of party political funds rather than constantly using taxpayers ' money to try to get its message across ? |
| 27 | Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile ? |
| 28 | Why should the same peptide ‘ mean ’ the same highly specific memory/behaviour in different animals/species ? |
| 29 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 30 | Why should the same weight be given to Harry 's second preference or Dick 's fifth as to Tom 's first " ? |