Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] [not/n't] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why did you not call the fire brigade ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Why did you not have the common decency to inform your uncle Orrin of where you were going , even if you no longer wish to oblige your mother and me ? ’ |
| 4 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 5 | Why did he not quote the decisive passages which they contained ? |
| 6 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 7 | If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ? |
| 8 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 9 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
| 10 | Why do they not have the guts to tackle their own Government about cuts in services ? |
| 11 | But why do you not tell the authorities , petition the Council ? ’ |
| 12 | Why do you not remember the words of Brillat Savarin : the pot must smile . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Why does he not convince the Cabinet to be good Europeans and to obey the rules like France , Germany and Spain ? |
| 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 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 ? |
| 18 | If a larger bird is low in the queue , why does it not displace the bird at the head ? |
| 19 | If it is the Number 1 killer disease , why does it not receive the Number 1 national effort with the entire nation behind it , with colossal educational programmes , enormous amounts of publicity , and the full support of the medical profession ? |