Example sentences of "why [vb mod] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 1 ) Why must a business plan ahead , making use of sales and market forecasts ?
2 why should a builder , because she 's bought second tiles , take time to sort out the duff one 's
3 Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ?
4 It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ?
5 Why should a phone ringing stop him ? ’
6 Why should a customer buy any one particular company s insurance product as opposed to a similar product from another insurance company ?
7 Erm the why should a parent , looking at this pretty critically why should a parent want an older child , like to give up something to a younger one ?
8 Erm the why should a parent , looking at this pretty critically why should a parent want an older child , like to give up something to a younger one ?
9 " Why should a man like Rossmayne take such trouble over a gypsy ?
10 The Romans made much use of it also , its generic name being derived from salvere , to be well , and in the Middle Ages , there was a current Arabic saying : " Why should a man die when there is sage in his garden ? "
11 Why should a man hang himself here ? ’
12 Why should a man do that ? ’
13 So why should a man more used to glamorous roles want to play a mean old miser ?
14 Mr Goldring said it might have crossed jurors ' minds ‘ Why should a nurse do these things ? ’
15 Why should a faculty of theology teach only the history of Christianity or the study of language ?
16 Why should a tailor become involved with some mad , treasonable monk ?
17 If the hon. Gentleman and some brewers say that prices will increase , I can only quote a leading national newspaper which said : ’ Why should a pint be a pint everywhere but in a pub ?
18 There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ?
19 But then why should a male have spots ?
20 Why should a bloke on the wireless write about ghosts ?
21 you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses
22 Why should a hut in which someone lives count as his ?
23 Why should a woman keep it any different ?
24 What is the British Constitution ; what is constitutional theory ; and why should a book about the location and exercise of power in Britain spend time dealing with these matters ?
25 If it was the priory , why should a nun murder two travellers ?
26 The glamorous secretary does not clean her desk space ; a skilled fitter does not sweep his part of the factory floor so why should a food worker have to clean ?
27 Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ?
28 Why should a being care about what time I get up , what I wear , what I eat ? ’
29 Why should a display be changed regularly ?
30 Why should a citizen , injured in a pecuniary sense by a public law wrong , have to be satisfied with having the decision reversed if reversal does not undo the pecuniary injury ?
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