Example sentences of "why [verb] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it taken so long ? |
| 2 | Why has it taken so long for this in his technique to be exposed ? |
| 3 | Why has it taken so long to bring interconnection back on to the agenda ? |
| 4 | What do you think has provoked women musicians to start singing rude and violent rock songs and why has it happened now ? |
| 5 | Why did it matter so much where you were buried ? |
| 6 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 7 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
| 8 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
| 9 | Why did it take well over ninety minutes ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why did it take so long for the world to wake up to what was going on , ’ she asked repeatedly . |
| 11 | The question becomes ; why did it take so long , not why did it happen at all . |
| 12 | Why did it take so long for manufacturing employment to level out ? |
| 13 | Why did it sell so many copies by word of mouth ? |
| 14 | And if this only worked because it was not ‘ real life ’ why did it work now ? |
| 15 | Why does it matter so much ? |
| 16 | PJ turns his attention to the US government : ‘ What the fuck do these guys do all day and why does it cost so goddamned much money ? ’ |
| 17 | Why does it increase so very much in January and February ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why does it look so — so — ? ’ |
| 19 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 20 | Why does it live there ? |
| 21 | But if nuclear power was as dangerous , polluting and unhealthy as its opponents believed , then why had it survived so long ? |