Example sentences of "why [be] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why 's it ridiculous ? |
| 2 | Why 's it all dark ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’ |
| 4 | Why 's it dangerous ? |
| 5 | Why 's it half five ? |
| 6 | Silly tape , why 's it silly ? |
| 7 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 8 | And why is it cheaper ? |
| 9 | Boring , why is it boring ? |
| 10 | But why is it fifteen hundred pounds ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | But why is it that AIDS victims suffer from such obscure infections ? |
| 14 | Why is it that hearing loss can play havoc with self-confidence ? |
| 15 | ( 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 ? |
| 16 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 17 | But finally , why is it that game show contestants are never UNEMPLOYED ? |
| 18 | Why is it that prejudice is sometimes a successful vehicle for comedy ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | If there is such continuity between waking skills in integrating visual material and in the coherence of dream reports , why is it that " dream logic " follows rules of its own , characteristic of Bleuler 's " A-thinking " or Freud 's primary process thinking ? |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Is that , why is it that , is it because you do n't think the , why is it you do n't use the local shops , is it because erm you you prefer to go elsewhere ? |
| 28 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |