Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] why the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 8 | This still does not explain why the Conservatives fared so much worse than in 1985 . |
| 9 | In particular , emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments . |
| 10 | does not explain why the rate of investment and innovation in British industry were so low to begin with . |
| 11 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 12 | The local Joint Working Party could not explain why the post had been graded by the National Joint Council 's Assimilation Panel on two occasions . |
| 13 | This , however , does not explain why the purges were so extensive . |
| 14 | I think it 's impossible to explore why there is a difference , it does not explain why the matters we have already discussed , like vacancies , households and death rates why there is a difference between what the County Council say is one hundred percent , and what the H B F and others are advocating which is considerably more . |
| 15 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 16 | We still do not know why the large cerebellar Purkinje neurons and CA1 hippocampal neurons have such large numbers of IP 3 Rs . |
| 17 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 18 | I do not know why the amendment has been tabled . |
| 19 | I do not know why the Minister is making such heavy weather of this matter . |
| 20 | I do not know why the Leader of the House bothers with his Committees , given that he has apparently introduced a major constitutional innovation without any agreement from them . |
| 21 | It does not matter why the news reaches him so late . |
| 22 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |
| 23 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ You appear to be the only person left in the country who does not understand why the Chancellor resigned . |
| 24 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 25 | He was completely dumbfounded by the whole incident and could not understand why the rocks had fallen on his cottage . |
| 26 | I could not understand why the door had been locked . |
| 27 | Jorg Sambetn , a Givaudan engineer who investigated the accident after it happened , says it should only have taken 15 minutes , and can not understand why the workers omitted it . |
| 28 | Team manager John Louis said last night , ‘ Miroslaw has all the status of a world star and I can not understand why the request was refused . |
| 29 | Now I have explained all I can , you will realise that we really do not understand why the neocortex is , as Herrick called it , the organ of civilisation . |
| 30 | When I visited the School of Mathematics , I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy . |