Example sentences of "why be these [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why are these properties repeated in secondary visual cortex ?
2 Why are these producers so fascinated by sex ?
3 Why are these memories so strong and so personal ?
4 Why are these flies playing football in my saucer ?
5 Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ?
6 Why are these men forcing me to do this ?
7 Why are these words repeated ?
8 If people are obstructive long enough you listen and you think well , why are these people being obstructive .
9 Why were these women there ?
10 Neither system was wholly satisfactory , but during the public inquiry into the Trident accident at Staines in 1972 evidence was heard that other aircraft had suffered similar happenings ( though in less critical circumstances and there had been no accident ) and the question was put : ‘ Why were these incidents not reported under the voluntary system ? ’
11 Above all , why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions , in an age of routine rocketry ?
12 The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ?
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