Example sentences of "why [vb -s] he not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he knows , why has he not moved ? ’ |
| 2 | If , as Mr Bush indicated in his letter , he knew in October of Mr Frohnmayer 's ‘ wish to step aside ’ , why has he not nominated a successor ? |
| 3 | He has increased funds to the Arts Council , so why has he not unfrozen the acquisition grants ? |
| 4 | Why does he not telephone again ? |
| 5 | Why does he not give the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) a copy of last month 's Department of Employment gazette , which shows that the rise in telecommunication charges during the past year has been 7 per cent . |
| 6 | But why does he not do something ? |
| 7 | Rather than procrastinating with shadow trusts , why does he not do what the incoming Labour Government will do and abandon the ill-conceived , ill-considered , useless and unwanted ideas about trust hospitals ? |
| 8 | If the Minister wishes to quote sources , he should be comprehensive so why does he not quote the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council as well ? |
| 9 | Why does he not face up to his responsibility and see that adequate compensation is given to the people who suffered so badly during that development ? |
| 10 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |
| 11 | Why does he not convince the Cabinet to be good Europeans and to obey the rules like France , Germany and Spain ? |
| 12 | When I told her that Umbarak was still alive and sometimes visited London , she asked , ‘ Why does he not come to sit with Zayed ? ’ |
| 13 | That is all very well , but why does he not come clean and give us Labour 's figures ? |
| 14 | Why does he not take note of that widespread feeling ? |
| 15 | As the hon. Gentleman agrees that Scotland is a different nation , why does he not accept that it should have its own system if it prefers , and allow it to have a fair rates system ? |
| 16 | If the right hon. Gentleman is so concerned about unemployment and recession , why does he not acknowledge the impact that his minimum wage would have upon unemployment ? |
| 17 | Why does he not acknowledge what the £6 billion-worth of cuts in defence would do to employment ? |
| 18 | Why does he not acknowledge what the impact of his tax on savings would do to investment ? |
| 19 | Why does he not acknowledge what his strikers charter would do to industrial relations ? |
| 20 | Why does he not acknowledge what his party 's attitude to inward investment would do to jobs in the north-east , in Wales , in Scotland and in many other parts of the country ? |
| 21 | Why does he not impose a levy — not the levy that we were just speaking about , but one similar to the French or German levy — to bring jobs to disabled people ? |
| 22 | Many times have I heard people say , ‘ But if there is a God up there , then why does he not help me in my dilemma ? ’ |
| 23 | If he agrees that the position is as we think it should be , why does he not say that he agrees with the proposals in the Green Paper , which we intend to put into legislation ? |
| 24 | Instead of calling in the army why does he not call in the arbitrators and give back London a proper service ? ’ . |
| 25 | Why does he not call in the authorities that he mentioned — there are others — to identify the problems that confront them and which lead to properties being left empty when clearly , a large number of people are waiting to be housed ? |