Example sentences of "why [vb mod] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why must there ? ’ |
| 2 | Why should there be a conspiracy ? |
| 3 | Why should there be ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why should there be more ? ’ |
| 5 | The tiny perfections of detail in these deceptions have puzzled some animal-watchers , who argue that no predator could be that clever — so why should there be these amazing refinements which may include such things as small patches of fake leaf-mould , or tiny pieces of leaf damage' ? |
| 6 | Why should there be a surface to get beneath , a skin to get under ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why should there be so much hassle over one position when there are so many other good players fighting for places in the centre and back row ? |
| 8 | And why should there have been a problem ? |
| 9 | Why should there have been such friction with the Nazareans in Jerusalem , some of whom had known Jesus personally and were certainly closer to him than Paul ever was ? |
| 10 | Why should there be ? |
| 11 | To those for whom gas was out of the question , and candles or lamps were expensive luxuries , firelight was often the single source of light as well as heat , as George Eliot notes in Adam Bede : ‘ It was a pretty scene in the red fire-light : for there were no candles ; why should there be , when the fire was so bright , and was reflected from all the pewter and the polished oak ? ’ |
| 12 | The new select committee system has strengthened parliamentary scrutiny over government departments : why should there not be a similar advance in relation to nationalized industries ? |
| 13 | This was clear to Leibniz but not at all to Kant , although Leibniz , not surprisingly , found it difficult to provide a satisfactory clarification of the conditions of intelligibility of the idea of existential uniqueness , or explain why should there not be duplicate universes , and was finally reduced to appealing to the idea of a rationally acting God . |
| 14 | Why should there be a plurality of ontological existents rather than just one ? |
| 15 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 16 | Why should there be anything sinister about him ? |
| 17 | Why should there be so much adoration of Esther Rantzen and so much favouritism extended towards her , and so much envy of and hostility towards the quite blameless , devastatingly lovely and completely inoffensive Selina Scott ? ’ |
| 18 | Why should there be so many more quarks than antiquarks ? |
| 19 | Why should there be ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why should there be ? ’ |
| 21 | Why should there be a conflict about weaning ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why should there be ? ’ |
| 23 | Why should there be this conspiracy to keep this painful secret amongst mothers ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why should there be no point in it , effendi ? ’ she asked quietly , in a perfectly normal voice . |
| 25 | Why should there be ? ’ |
| 26 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 27 | and I said why should there be a big queue and you said because cos it 's a B T share offer . |
| 28 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
| 29 | ‘ And if I had n't paid why would there be a receipt anyway , ’ protested Kylie quite logically . |