Example sentences of "why it [be] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 2 | Twenty three okay well I 've it on twenty three I do n't know why it 's not working . |
| 3 | I 've had a look at it , but I ca n't find why it is n't working . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I found the homework , homework diary was useful because I used to check in , end of every of week they used to know if it was n't there I 'd want to know why it was n't done ! |
| 8 | Why do we continue to identify positions in our union rules if we 're not gon na use them , and another point , is the , if rule nineteen was part of an employer 's agreement , we would be first to challenge that agreement and ask why it was not implemented . |
| 9 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 10 | Always question any increase in price and ask for good reasons why it was not included in the original estimate . |
| 11 | Always question any increase in price and ask why it was not included in the original estimates . |
| 12 | Exactly why it was not included in the treaty is unclear . |
| 13 | Why it was not introduced into engineering earlier is not clear . |
| 14 | I ca n't answer that , because erm there 's certainly nothing in the text of the plan to suggest why it was not considered appropriate , erm and I do n't know erm I I ca n't instantly think what factors erm might have gone into that consideration . |