Example sentences of "why [be] it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why 's it all dark ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’ |
| 3 | Why 's it half five ? |
| 4 | But why is it fifteen hundred pounds ? |
| 5 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 6 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 7 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 8 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 9 | In view of the excellence of British beef , why is it that major British restaurant chains , which , incidentally make generous donations to the Conservative party , are unable , on the grounds of quantity , quality and consistency , to use a single ounce of British beef in their restaurants , when at the same time 1 million tonnes is rotting in intervention ? |
| 10 | So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ? |
| 11 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
| 12 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
| 13 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
| 14 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 15 | That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ? |
| 16 | Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ? |
| 17 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
| 18 | ( Why is it that American Football , an infinitely more static , convoluted sport should draw such paeans of admiration from the same sportswriters who condemn rugby union matches for being dull and boring ? |
| 19 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why is it any worse for you ? |
| 21 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 22 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 23 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |