Example sentences of "why it should [be] " in BNC.

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1 I have often wondered why it should be such a primitive machine in spite of all its modern gadgets .
2 ‘ No reason why it should be a local man , is there ? ’
3 ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’
4 When I am settled , there is no reason why my life should not be as placid , and there is much reason why it should be far more placid , than at home .
5 You must realise that , so we 'd like to know why it should be necessary . ’
6 Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place .
7 Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances .
8 In law to enter a plea in bar has several meanings ; the relevant one here is to prevent the advancement of a claim by a litigating party by showing cause why it should be set aside .
9 If there is a single sister , there is no reason why it should be taken for granted that she should shoulder the caring .
10 There is no reason why it should be identical with the one and only ‘ god ’ that can serve man and be exalted by him .
11 Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things .
12 The first question which an egoist might raise is why it should be assumed that I can not be aware from another 's viewpoint without being moved towards his goals .
13 During the interim decision on the AWA negligence case against Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu — in which AWA had alleged that DRT contributed to the $50m in foreign exchange losses the company suffered — trial judge Mr Justice Rogers asked the court why it should be that ‘ the whole burden of possibly insolvent wrongdoers falls entirely on a well-insured , or deep-pocket , defendant ’ ?
14 In fact no one has as yet produced a really convincing theory to explain the periodicity of the sunspot cycle , or why it should be periodic .
15 But surely on the more austere view one can easily explain why it should be so peculiar to assert ‘ p but I do n't believe that p ’ .
16 In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them .
17 Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere .
18 But all around him , voices are clamouring to know why it should be Indians who have all the luck .
19 But more vexing still was why it should be that particular face , of all those in her memory 's catalogue , she 'd chosen to configure from that of a perfect stranger .
20 But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons .
21 If we take that ideal seriously there seems no good reason why it should be excluded from an important area of our lives , our relations within and to the workplace .
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23 The width of the statutory language , ‘ such steps as the court may direct , ’ is striking and there is , in my opinion , no good reason why it should be restricted .
24 Students like yourself have decided how and why it should be written ; the authors have merely put together a series of explanations and answers to the questions that these students have asked .
25 She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars .
26 as if I had to ask why it should be that there is n't any fun any more .
27 She could n't explain to herself why it should be , but it was something which she had tried to put out of her mind , for the present anyway .
28 That is not necessarily so in relation to the few surviving companies limited by guarantee and having a share capital.z And there is no inherent reason why it should be so with companies limited by shares ; indeed a very sensible method of promoting voluntary ‘ co-determination ’ would be to provide means whereby employees could become members without also having to buy shares in the company , thus risking the loss of their savings as well as their jobs if their employer-company becomes insolvent .
29 That is why it is so vitally important that legislation should be expressed in language that can be clearly understood and why it should be in a form that makes it readily accessible .
30 The body had not been identified as Stavanger 's — though , when I came to think of it , there was no reason why it should be , because he had not been reported missing .
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