Example sentences of "why be [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why are you hungry darling ? |
| 2 | Why are you hard work . |
| 3 | ‘ Why are you determined Maurin could n't have killed Sabine Jourdain ? ’ |
| 4 | I used to say to my mum , " Why am I this colour ? " |
| 5 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 6 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 7 | Why is it that prejudice is sometimes a successful vehicle for comedy ? |
| 8 | Why is it that hearing loss can play havoc with self-confidence ? |
| 9 | But finally , why is it that game show contestants are never UNEMPLOYED ? |
| 10 | But why is it that AIDS victims suffer from such obscure infections ? |
| 11 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |
| 12 | Why is it pure gin ? |
| 13 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 14 | Then Harriet Shakespeare said , more softly and sounding puzzled , ‘ So why is it any use talking to me ? |
| 15 | Why is she allus right and me allus wrong ? |
| 16 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 17 | Why was it that time always flew when you did n't want it to ? |