Example sentences of "why [is] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If this is fake , why is it so marvellous , Ben ? ’ she had asked , and he had shaken his head in wonder at her question . |
| 32 | ‘ Why is it so important that I stay ? ’ she demanded . |
| 33 | Having discarded as inadequate our orthodox rationalisations for meat 's culinary centrality , the question remained : why is it so important ? |
| 34 | ‘ Why is it so difficult for everyone to believe me ? ’ she demanded through clenched teeth . |
| 35 | Why is it so important ? ’ |
| 36 | But why is it so poignant ? she wondered . |
| 37 | ‘ Why is it so important to get me back in your rotten little Church , Quiggers ? ’ |
| 38 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 39 | One , why is it so important for the newcomer . |
| 40 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 41 | Why is it so hard for you to believe me ? ’ |
| 42 | Why is it so important to you that I admit I 'm a thief ? |
| 43 | WHY IS it so expensive to watch your local football team ? |
| 44 | So if it 's , if it was cold this morning then why is it so hot now ? |
| 45 | That 's a hell of a lot to be asking , you know , why is it so much ? |
| 46 | Why is it so bad ? |
| 47 | Er you must therefore ask yourselves the question , why is it therefore the government has decided to er re re remove the funding er for this particular project erm never mind they said er we now know how to build fast reactors , look there 's one we 've already built , a prototype we have th the , the er the th the blueprints , the drawings for a full scale version and when we actually need the fast reactors in say the year two thousand and ten or thereabouts , we 'll just get the blueprints out of the filing cabinet and we will build them . |
| 48 | Erm I think my answer to the to the questions being thrown out by by the Senior Inspector is is that surely Government policy is to protect the countryside for its own sake , and and why is it therefore wrong for a county with erm areas of acknowledged environmental importance to try and give expression to that in in its structure plan . |
| 49 | And why is it suddenly fashionable ? |
| 50 | Why is it much easier for a business person to start a new factory in the area shown in the upper photograph , than in many other parts of the world such as that shown in the lower photograph ? |
| 51 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 52 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 53 | ‘ Toby , why is it always raspberry jam ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Why is it always the woman who 's to blame , in your book ? ’ an angry Robbie wanted to know . |
| 55 | Why is it always the odd man out ? |
| 56 | Behind Lucy 's head , an office party , obviously continued from lunch-time , was getting slowly and inevitably out of hand and at least one guy from the Accounts Department ( why is it always Accounts ? ) was not waving , but drowning in the typing pool . |
| 57 | Why is it always so white and frothy ? ? |
| 58 | Why is it always the same two teams in the final ? |
| 59 | ‘ Why is it always red at night ? ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Why is it always Merseyside that gets the chop ? ’ |