Example sentences of "why it could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers once again ducked the question of recognising Macedonia , even though Lord Carrington is believed to have said there was no practical reason why it could not go ahead . |
| 2 | Mr Michael Grade , the channel 's chief executive , yesterday called on the Government to explain why it could not trust ITC appointments . |
| 3 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 4 | The big question was why it could not have been called something else altogether : Great North Large Tract of Land , for example . |
| 5 | There is no reason why it could n't have been invented at almost any time in the previous century — it used no new scientific knowledge , no new materials , and no new technology . |