Example sentences of "and why [be] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh yes , and why 's that ? ’
2 And why 's that , Izzie ? ’
3 And why is that ? ’
4 And why is that ?
5 And why is that ? ’
6 And why is that ?
7 Why is there living and why is there dying , why is some people laughing and why is some , some people crying .
8 How many standard sizes do Beaver offer and why is this important ?
9 How and why is this the case ?
10 We have some people on training courses who could tell that they 're quite theorists cos question of challenge if you actually put forward some ideas they 'll , they 'll question them , not in a negative way , but they just want to know well where have these come from and why and why is this and on your training courses what theorists will do is if you 're actually putting together forward and processing procedures that C U follow , they 'll question why they wo n't just accept it , they 'll actually question it , not in the negative way but they 'll want to understand it .
11 Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south .
12 And why are all those heaps of things in the yard ?
13 ‘ Why am I alive , and why are all my friends dead ? ’
14 Why did the ancient replicators club together to make , and reside in , lumbering robots , and why are those robots — individual bodies , you and me — so large and so complicated ?
15 And why was that tall , thin creep staring at her ?
16 And why was that , Mr Rafferty ? ’
17 And why was that ?
18 She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen .
19 And why was that ?
20 And why was that ? ’
21 And why was that ?
22 And why was that ?
23 And why was such a well-dressed man using a brothel like the City of Dreams ?
24 And why were those agents murdered ? ’
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