Example sentences of "why anyone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching the cuisinières during the early stages , there was no obvious clue as to why anyone should find it necessary to draw a theoretical distinction between male and female chefs . |
| 2 | No amount of pouting by Marlene Dietrich or posturing by Robert Donat could reveal why anyone thought the audience would want to watch the dull account of the Russian Revolution offered in Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ) . |
| 3 | It is so simple to make that , provided you have all the ingredients , I can not imagine why anyone ever buys the ready-prepared varieties . |
| 4 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 5 | He did not see why anyone , even a wealthy mill-owner , would want to drive a horse and carriage backwards down such a steeply sloping yard when he could just as easily leave it standing in the driveway . |
| 6 | He introduced the Deer Act and spoke seventy-seven times during the Wildlife and Countryside Bill ( ‘ I can not understand why anyone should want to shoot a curlew . |
| 7 | To be fair , there 's no reason why anyone 's early home movies should appeal outside home ; and Time Zones and In The Shadow of the Sun ( ReVision / Jettisoundz , 18 and U , £14.99 each ) are no exception . |
| 8 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 9 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |
| 10 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 11 | The main problem had been finding a reason why anyone should want to visit Vienna at present . |
| 12 | This may be an exaggerated view of the public 's overall reaction , but it is certainly not of a vocal minority : It is this pursuit of utopia which is at the heart of the reason why anyone concerned with buildings should understand and take into account the impact of planning control . |
| 13 | But I ca n't see why anyone should invent a story like that . ’ |
| 14 | She peered at the men fighting , for the life of her not able to think why anyone would come to her rescue . |
| 15 | He could n't understand why anyone went to parties . |
| 16 | Quite why anyone should want this feature remains unexplained . |
| 17 | With such problems and difficulties to overcome one wonders why anyone bothers . |
| 18 | All attempts to explain just why anyone would want to do this failed . |
| 19 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 20 | A lot of people ca n't understand why anyone cares about ‘ Threshergate ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Why anyone should wish to carry out such an evil and depraved attack on a young girl like this is a mystery to us . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't imagine why anyone would do this to another human being . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't see why anyone wants to fight for England , ’ Eileen said . |
| 24 | There is no reason why anyone should assume that disease in old age is untreatable , although we often do . |
| 25 | But they were very strange creatures , humans , and she could not understand why anyone would want to live with them . |
| 26 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 27 | Why anyone should want to govern anyone else continues to escape me . |
| 28 | Why anyone should want to hide away money in Kabul is quite beyond me . |
| 29 | Few would seriously argue that Cobol was the best business programming language and adherents of APL can never understand why anyone should want to use anything else . |
| 30 | He strongly criticised local government for increasing bureaucracy and asked why anyone with an interesting and busy life would want to be involved with it . |