Example sentences of "be [verb] why they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're wondering why they ca n't see a human inside , he thought . |
| 2 | It is essential that patients are told why they are being isolated and the reason for the various precautions should be explained . |
| 3 | They can do it , and they are wondering why they are doing it . |
| 4 | The rulebook states that a member has the right to appeal but it does n't say that they have the right to be told why they 've lost . |
| 5 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 6 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 7 | It is , therefore , a question of black children fitting into the educational system and the sociological problem might be to explain why they fail to integrate . |
| 8 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 9 | And perhaps lots of people were wondering why they were n't having this good time . |
| 10 | Those who answered " Yes " or " No " were asked why they made their decisions . |
| 11 | The problem was , Cora-Beth could see no reason now that they were engaged why they should not make love . |
| 12 | One of the most frequent reactions to the observation that many people do not understand about mental handicap is to question why they should . |
| 13 | What is important is determining why they were here , and who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 14 | This in itself is a mildly interesting observation and certainly needs to be made ; but what we should go on to do is to say why they do not appear there . |
| 15 | ‘ I was wondering why they talk of possessing women , ’ said Lydia . |