Example sentences of "not [vb infin] why [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 2 | Title V of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that the Common Foreign and Security policy ‘ shall respect the obligations of certain Member States under the North Atlantic Treaty ’ ; but this does not explain why a new structure is necessary at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 5 | Many Frenchmen remained suspicious even of arming Germans within a European force , and many did not see why the French army should lose its own military independence by joining EDC . |
| 6 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 7 | But I still do not see why the little houses . ’ |