Example sentences of "why do we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 2 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 3 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 4 | In response to the related questions of why do we enforce contracts and what contracts should we enforce , liberal philosophy points towards two kinds of answer . |
| 5 | WHY DO WE age and die , instead of staying young forever ? |
| 6 | Why do we cling to unhappiness and misfortune ? |
| 7 | Why do we consume animal flesh ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why do we want everlasting stripes again ? ’ he said . |
| 9 | Why do we want to make money ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why do we want to do that ? ’ |
| 11 | And what about us — why do we want to get educated ? ’ |
| 12 | Why , why do we want to liberalize world trade ? |
| 13 | And a key in all of this and Professor Lock er mentioned is why should we have er a strategic exceptions policy , why why do we want to attract those sort of developments to the county and more specifically perhaps Harrogate District ? |
| 14 | Why do we make our daughters so appearance-conscious ? |
| 15 | Erm let's go back to differentiation , what does is mean why the why the big deal you know why do we make such a fuss about , Hey would n't it be nice to integrate things . |
| 16 | Why do we continue to talk about marriage as if it were a commonly understood state when these differences so obviously exist ? |
| 17 | Why do we continue to accept such judgments ? |
| 18 | Why do we continue to identify positions in our union rules if we 're not gon na use them , and another point , is the , if rule nineteen was part of an employer 's agreement , we would be first to challenge that agreement and ask why it was not implemented . |
| 19 | TRAFFIC CONES : Why do we love to decorate the roads with them ? |
| 20 | So why do we love our pets so much ? |
| 21 | To return to the arrow of time , there remains the question : Why do we observe that the thermodynamic and cosmological arrows point in the same direction ? |
| 22 | I had written what was judged the best essay on the topic of the Mortification of the Flesh : " Why do we mortify our flesh in Lent ? … |
| 23 | The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ? |
| 24 | We call it a proceed , then why do we check proceed should be part of the whole self process and not just in . |
| 25 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do we quarrel ? |
| 27 | Why do we do it ? |
| 28 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 29 | Why do we do this ? |
| 30 | Why do we do this ? |