Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the applicant has made repeated unsuccessful requests he may wish to know why he is not obtaining the licence . |
| 2 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 3 | A detailed study of the strategic document reveals why it is not difficult to understand that there was some unwillingness to have it subjected to detailed transport analysis . |
| 4 | If you accept the definition of a weed as " a plant growing where it is not wanted " , once it has a use and is being grown for a purpose , it is no longer a weed . |
| 5 | His ability to tell you how he sees things and then show you how he sees things , with the use of film , leaves the viewer wondering why he is not given the whole Without Walls slot . |
| 6 | The rank shown for Hopkins appears to be sergeant , but it is not understood why he is not grouped with the other three , Lochead , Mullen and Nicholl . |
| 7 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 8 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 9 | Fable 45 in R. Dodsley 's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ( 1798 ) describes a man buying a parrot because he is so impressed by the bird 's saying ‘ I think the more ’ when asked why it is not chattering like the other parrots in the shop . |
| 10 | He maintains that group members will soon accept the non-criminal character of this new member of their group , and they will behave as they do when he is not among them ( Polsky 1967 ) . |
| 11 | His sport and study schedule , coupled with his natural diffidence , perhaps explains why he is not remembered as a great socialiser . |
| 12 | The introduction of human practice as a mediation in the production of ideology explains why it is not a simple reflection ( albeit distorted or inverted ) that can be decoded to reveal the essential relations of the material sphere . |
| 13 | If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder . |
| 14 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |
| 15 | This might help to explain why he is not optimistic about the future of Soviet science . |
| 16 | Sometimes an opportunity is so obvious to the person who has thought of it that he can not imagine how it is not equally obvious to everyone else . |