Example sentences of "why [adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid not , you can imagine why not ca n't you . |
| 3 | Why not let's go back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 4 | Why not will your head fall off ? |
| 5 | That 's why just can not make a living . |
| 6 | And why ever should n't you be pleased , love ? |
| 7 | Why now should they be prepared to recognise as Messiah precisely the imperial authority which , three centuries before , had crucified Jesus — and which continued to practise execution by crucifixion on rebels against the State ? |
| 8 | That is just one reason why TODAY will not weep if tonight 's vote goes against the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | And why indeed should gamesmanship not exist in disabled sport when it is rife everywhere else ? |
| 10 | Edward is in his thirteenth year , two years your elder , and is King of England — why then would he depend on you ? ’ |
| 11 | Why then can you pass the ball into the '22 , a situation which will only arise if you have support there to pass to . |
| 12 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 13 | Horses are usually pretty easy going creatures who grow fond of people and attention : why then should some be anxious ? |
| 14 | Why then should anyone want to conserve examples of modern architecture ? |
| 15 | Why then should words be shorn of their decoration ? |
| 16 | Why then should I subsidise the choices of others ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why then should one ignore it ? ’ |
| 18 | Why then should I , who lack papa 's experience of men and statecraft , question Uncle Richard 's judgement now ? |
| 19 | Why then should she look in particular to Jesus ? |
| 20 | Why then should the trade unions have settled for something less ? |
| 21 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 22 | Why then must the street in which she lives , in a row of handsome but not very grand Georgian houses , be protected by gates and railings which can without hyperbole be described as neo-palatial ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why else would there be so many fal-lals and thingamajigs on those cakes ? ’ the widow said , wearily . |
| 24 | Why else would you hold an election ? |
| 25 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 26 | Why else would a man spend hours over foaming vats other than to anticipate the pleasures to come ? |
| 27 | Why else would there already be the reported droves of tour operators and speculators visiting South Africa , if not to set up the same kind of hospitality package deals that South Africans were forced to buy in 1991 ? |
| 28 | Why else would there be the persistent stories that the IB might not even make £3 million out of the 1991 competition ? |
| 29 | Whereas people throughout the communist world were inclined to believe the opposite of what their masters told them ( e.g. Pinochet was a good democrat — why else would ‘ They ’ abuse him ? ) , very often their scepticism collapsed in the face of an unsubstantiated rumour . |
| 30 | MR LYSONS of 21 Norton Rd , Rochdale , is a man with a mission — why else would he publish a fanzine dedicated to the works of that erstwhile Genesis mixer and general eminent musical mastermind — Jonathan King . |