Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] why " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poindexter 's expression all through his testimony was one of mystification , shrouded in patient smoke , as if he really could not think why all these people wanted to ply him with questions . |
| 2 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 3 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 4 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 5 | I can not think why Mrs Talbot never chose to have any herself , there is really something special about a poultry yard . ’ |
| 6 | I can not think why . |
| 7 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 8 | I was confused , not realising why you could n't speak to me to tell me what was wrong . |
| 9 | And it has worked , so let's leave it alone , if it doesn , if it 's not broken why mend it ? |
| 10 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 11 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 12 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 13 | This does not explain why she describes the movement of a crowd as ‘ hydric ’ , or locates the home of Mr Castro 's father , the Galician ex-soldier Angel Castro , in a ‘ nouveau wilderness ’ . |
| 14 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 15 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 16 | Apparently he had quarrelled with Survage too , although he does not explain why . |
| 17 | And it certainly does not explain why those spaces of cultural criticism that the left does control — in the ‘ core ’ journals — should be so critically and politically inarticulate . |
| 18 | Although statistics do not explain why people are increasingly in debt they do explain why ‘ negotiating debt ’ enquiries have increased by 330 per cent over the last three years in Scottish CABx . |
| 19 | Merton 's theory does not explain why some individuals faced with a situation of anomie conform while others break the rules . |
| 20 | But that does not explain why 12 per cent of 1981 's science graduates could not find work . |
| 21 | I was therefore delighted to read in chapter three that the author , talking about oversimplified reasoning in music says , ‘ … . it does not explain why I respond with goose-pimples to Bach 's Kyrie every time I listen to it . ’ |
| 22 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 23 | But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale . |
| 24 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 25 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 26 | This interpretation , which broadly parallels Bernard Cohn 's argument that the Indian judicial system was manipulated because of culture conflict between British and Indian legal norms , does not explain why Sri Lankans used the courts so often . |
| 27 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 29 | He could not explain why Viola was wrong . |
| 30 | The Spanish origin of the catalogue may also explain the absence of a bibliography and index , but does not explain why the Mexicas have replaced the well known Aztecs . |