Example sentences of "why should [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should not people do as they pleased with their own bodies ? |
| 2 | So why should not his political successors be war criminals ? |
| 3 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 4 | Why should not the greatest Romanian in history imitate him ? |
| 5 | It is scarcely possible , in the face of this legislation , to maintain that ‘ rights ’ are a privilege with which none but human beings can be invested ; for if some animals are already included within the pale of protection , why should not more and more be so included in the future ? ( 1922 : 5 ) |
| 6 | ‘ Why should not Englishmen arm themselves ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | Yet if they were referring to a legitimate title , why should not Pilate have been doing so as well ? |
| 8 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |
| 9 | If the principle is accepted that the Audit Commission appoints private sector auditors of health and local authorities , why should not the C & AG appoint the auditors of the nationalized industries and other public bodies ? |
| 10 | If a transaction relating to English land is within the legislation regardless of the identity or whereabouts of the other party to the transaction , why should not this equally be so with regard to a transaction relating to shares in an English company ? |
| 11 | The court can not attach a meaning to words which they can not bear , but if the words are capable of bearing more than one meaning why should not Parliament 's true intention be enforced rather than thwarted ? |
| 12 | But why should not one dying too soon for her years and too late by far for her comfort take pleasure in the sudden visitation of youth and freshness and beauty , however flawed , and all the more for its vulnerability and helplessness in a world none too kind to the weak . |
| 13 | If his will was to tantalize and bewilder , why should not she take her own gentle revenge ? |
| 14 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 15 | If the precedent sale was at the request of the defendant , who later made the express promise of the guarantee , why should not the guarantee have been enforceable under Lampleigh v. Brathwait ? |
| 16 | Why should not his giving up his liberty to complain be consideration ? |
| 17 | Why should not a little boy with a feminine side play dollies with the girls ? |
| 18 | McAllister made up her mind ; if Eddie could not cycle to the Buildings then why should not she ? |
| 19 | Even if he seeks to deploy fewer warheads per boat than the maximum possible , why should not other countries follow his example and say that that is also their ideal of a minimum deterrent ? |
| 20 | We are unable to get addresses of our so it 's word of mouth how we , how we er include , but why should not the employer send to all pensioners and deferred pensioners notices about the associations . |
| 21 | He had ignored everything she had said previously to indicate that there was nothing between her and Florian , so why should tonight be any different ? |
| 22 | Again , why should higher level components not abandon this string in favour of the many thousands of better scoring strings ? |
| 23 | For goodness sake , why should small city-centre hotels have to operate restaurants or be forced into stupid little half-measures such as the aforementioned to get a rating ? |
| 24 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
| 25 | Why should n't he just be getting old ? |
| 26 | After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ? |
| 27 | Therefore , why should n't a rational person be able to head a company , just the same as a figures man , who is also a rational person ? ’ |
| 28 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 29 | Why should n't he have fabricated McCloy as a neat little red herring ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And why should n't you ? ’ |