Example sentences of "why did [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow .
2 It was one of 500 , he said and asked : ‘ Why did ministers conspire to conceal these documents ?
3 Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ?
4 Why did genes gang up in cells ?
5 First then , why did genes gang up in cells ?
6 Why did genes come together into large vehicles , each with a single genetic exit route ?
7 Right why did Victorians put skirtings around the table legs ?
8 Why did lads like Trevor Williamson not want to go to the Oval ?
9 In other words , why did consumers purchase the products and what needs were satisfied by its use ?
10 And why did bodies adopt what I shall call a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle ?
11 Why did cells gang up in many-celled bodies ?
12 Why did cells gang together ; why the lumbering robots ?
13 Why did men have to do it ?
14 Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ?
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