Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 2 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 3 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you insist that I go to work for you … ? |
| 5 | On that view why did he stress that both the label-switching and the removal from the shelves had to take place ? |
| 6 | Why did he conclude that fifty millesimals were better ? |
| 7 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 8 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 9 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |
| 10 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 11 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 15 | ‘ So why do you care that I was with her that night ? ’ |
| 16 | Why do you think that these girls come to London , in the first place ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Questioner : Why do you think that Saturdays and football is better than school ? |
| 19 | Why do you think that happened ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | Why do you think that direct file organization is less used than some other file organization techniques ? |
| 21 | ( a ) From your reading of the extract , why do you think that the historian has selected only these particular facts for his narrative ? |
| 22 | Erm in ter in terms of the erm crime why do why do you think that there is so much crime here ? |
| 23 | Rather than just saying ‘ It 's rubbish ’ at the start , asking ‘ Why do you think that it 's rubbish ? ’ |
| 24 | Why do you think that sort of thing goes in books ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 27 | Why do you think that he said said to court he was gon na go for ? |
| 28 | Why do you think that most of the people in this room do n't read newspapers ? |
| 29 | Right , go on , why do you agree , why do you think that there 's too much coverage of the Gulf ? |
| 30 | Now , Robert Maxwell has not responded in the past , why do you think that now he 'll respond to er these new moves ? |