Example sentences of "not [adj] why [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 2 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 3 | It was not clear why the matter deserved a book to itself . |
| 4 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 5 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 6 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 7 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 8 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 9 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 10 | I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board . |
| 11 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 12 | I am not sure why the hatred exists . |
| 13 | He was n't certain why the expression made his stomach churn , but churn it did . |