Example sentences of "why did the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did the following men have such a big impact on Parliament : Bates , Catesby , Winter , Wright , Fawkes , Percy ? |
| 2 | If the tax Madam speaker , is as obnoxious as the right honourable gentleman claims , then why did the Labour conference vote and I quote , For a general shift in taxation towards energy resource use ? |
| 3 | Why did the Soviet leadership decide to send him ? |
| 4 | You see the problem again is that , is the same as it is for anybody , next week is just planning , as it were , you know , this is what it 's about , why did the general management not sit down and say , oh that 's peak time to have them out we can not have all them indoors in there from , that 's a full morning . |
| 5 | ‘ Bruce , why did the good Mrs Yeo want to have a drink with her rival ? |
| 6 | Then , why did the blunt words hurt ? |
| 7 | Why did the ancient replicators club together to make , and reside in , lumbering robots , and why are those robots — individual bodies , you and me — so large and so complicated ? |
| 8 | Selden could not choose to live anywhere else , but why did the other man live in such conditions ? |
| 9 | Thirdly , why did the National government adopt a policy of non-intervention which , as implied in the previous chapter , aided the fascists at the expense of the legitimate Republican government of Spain ? |
| 10 | Why did the previous job holder leave ? |
| 11 | If , if , if you 're right about this could you explain the psychological mechanism that makes these kinds of returns of the repressed happen , I mean why did the Fre why did the French students feel they had to recreate the revolution ? |
| 12 | Why did the French envoy take a ferry across the Forth but never arrive at Kinghorn ? |
| 13 | Why did the old woman wait so long ? |
| 14 | Why did the ministerial hand hover above the name of Rees-Mogg when presented with a list of candidates for these public positions ? |
| 15 | Why did the Conservative Government propose such drastic change ? |
| 16 | Why did the wild friend ride |
| 17 | So why did the British Greens ( to take the national party which won the highest percentage of the vote ) do so well in the 1989 Euro-elections ? |
| 18 | Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ? |
| 19 | When the dinosaurs died , why did the mammal-like reptiles not do likewise ? |
| 20 | " Why did the wonderful times stop ? " asked Sara . |