Example sentences of "why [pron] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their message was : ‘ You see why I did not want Mrs. Bonnard to hear this . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That is why I did not arrive until late on Wednesday evening . |
| 3 | The car is not registered in my name , so I suppose that is why I did not receive a reminder . |
| 4 | I used to view the European Community as being an economic and political bloc confronting the East and COMECON , and that is why I did not believe that it was uniting Europe . |
| 5 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |
| 6 | That is why I do not bother to change when he calls . |
| 7 | But a reply of no would be an invitation to A to explain why she is looking for Ann , or why she does not know where she is . |
| 8 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 9 | But Gaily could not bring himself to ask why she did not return to it . |
| 10 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 11 | I was asking a women why she did not keep herself more tidy and make herself attractive to her husband . |
| 12 | One part of her could not believe it was happening , and perhaps that was why she did not resist . |
| 13 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |
| 14 | even after his marriage , to mow the lawn ; it gave her so little enjoyment that Clara wondered why she did not let it go to seed . |
| 15 | Always analyse how you could have improved your approach and landing and why you did not manage to touch down nearer to the spot . |
| 16 | Make it clear that you have taken in details by phrasing questions along the lines of , ‘ I 've looked at your educational record which seems excellent but could you perhaps tell me why you did not pass maths until two years after your other 0 levels/changed schools halfway through A levels/took a year off while doing your degree ? ’ |
| 17 | ( It may , occasionally be produced by a freelance team working outside the agency , and this may be another reason why you do not meet the creative group . |
| 18 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 19 | Given the history of European developments in the past 20 years , those people will also want to know why we did not learn from Britain 's earlier mistake . |
| 20 | They will want to know why we did not join the Community at its inception and fashion the very fabric of it to our advantage . |
| 21 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , all the Government have done is to ask why we did not support the purchase of council houses or the provisions for grant-maintained schools . |
| 23 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
| 25 | But I think you will understand why we do not regret staging a grand wedding for Annabelle and Steven . |
| 26 | ‘ the layman may well wonder why we do not consult the Parliamentary Debates , for we are much more likely to find the intention of Parliament there than anywhere else . |
| 27 | This is one reason why we do not restrict the use of " style " to what we have called stylistic variation , ie " styled " . |
| 28 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 29 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 30 | Will the Minister explain why we do not have an overall monitoring system to ensure that transport users get value for money and that there is a proper service , especially for those in rural areas ? |