Example sentences of "why [vb mod] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |
| 2 | Then , as he shook his head at her disbelievingly , she demanded , ‘ Why must you always believe the worst of me ? ’ |
| 3 | Why must I always have you and Dad on my back ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why should we even think such a thing ? ’ |
| 5 | And as the relationship between fat intake and cholesterol levels in the blood serum of any particular individual is very variable , why should we even try ? |
| 6 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 7 | If the use of human subjects could promote dramatic advances in research into hazardous surgery , such as liver transplantation , or the search for drugs to reverse Alzheimer 's disease , angina , or AIDS , but with possibly lethal side effects , why should we not offer long-term criminals the choice of undergoing such tests in exchange for a commutation of their sentence if they survive ? |
| 8 | Valensi , who had shown at the Section d'Or in 1912 , in a lecture given late in the following year asked : ‘ Why should we not invent pure painting ? |
| 9 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 10 | Then , her mouth full of hairpins , she asked , ‘ Why should we not go together , now , to the Lyceum ? ’ |
| 11 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
| 12 | Why should we not derive from them an understanding which includes a knowledge of both the individual causes of particular social phenomena and the holistic forces underlying them ? |
| 13 | Since the musician works with notes , why should we not accept that colour by its intrinsic force is capable of expressing a painter 's thought ? ’ |
| 14 | Why should we not live there ? ’ |
| 15 | That turned out to be untrue , so why should we now believe these spurious scares about NHS trusts leading to privatisation ? |
| 16 | They have they have t why should they even have to contemplate taking this type of industrial action ? |
| 17 | Why should anyone now doubt the truth of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ ? |
| 18 | If a woman found a style she liked , why should she not keep it for ever , as long as it was practical and comfortable ? |
| 19 | And why should she not come back ? |
| 20 | And you , ’ she added , greatly daring — but , since the Master was quizzing her so relentlessly , why should she not quiz the Master ? |
| 21 | But why should she always invite them ? |
| 22 | Dear God , why should she still find him so disturbing after all he had done to her ? |
| 23 | Why should he not view her as a fully rounded subject , with wants and desires of her own ? |
| 24 | Why should he not want to remember Maltby , though ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why should he not go to the family home ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 26 | ‘ Why should he not own it ? ’ |
| 27 | If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ? |
| 28 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
| 29 | Why should he not look at other women , as other men did ? |
| 30 | If he wo n't give Rocky a chance why should he even consider giving St-wart a chance ? |