Example sentences of "why [vb mod] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why may they expect a better future ? |
| 2 | 5 ) What are " contract markets " , and why may they be significant in industrial goods marketing ? |
| 3 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 4 | Why should they ? |
| 5 | These women he decries are simply weary with having to be constantly on guard against abuse , and why should they have to justify their position when the men are at fault ? |
| 6 | Why should they co-operate ? |
| 7 | Why should they ? ’ |
| 8 | We are represented by men hungry for high political office who will therefore not rock the party boat ; men whose loyalty is to their political careers , not necessarily their constituents ; men who know nothing of rural life , for why should they , nurtured as they were in towns or suburbs ? |
| 9 | Why should they ? |
| 10 | What puzzled observers was that , if the umpires were unsure who caused the collision , prompting a green flag , why should they penalise Conner ? |
| 11 | Why should they ? ’ |
| 12 | Why should they ? ’ — enchanted party workers . |
| 13 | ‘ Why should they ? ’ says Brian Everthorpe , tipping his chair back on its rear legs and hooking his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 14 | ‘ Why should they strike ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Why should they have to look at naked women all the time ? |
| 16 | Why should they take the risk ? ’ |
| 17 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Why should they be , and the oaths fairly flying at Edinburgh ? |
| 19 | Last of the Summer Wine ( 1974 ) , or Taggart have their own audience and their own time-slot , why should they innovate ? |
| 20 | Why should they be ? |
| 21 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why should they want that ? ’ |
| 23 | Why should they not be travelling to cities and places beyond ? |
| 24 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 25 | Furthermore , whales are supposed to be mammals who returned to a life in the sea — so , if the evolutionary theory contained all the answers , why should they have ever lost what to most mammals is an exquisite and finely tuned sense organ ? |
| 26 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 27 | Why should they be ? |
| 28 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 29 | Why should they put up with behaviour from you , that you yourself would find hurtful ? |
| 30 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |