Example sentences of "why can not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why ca n't bloody rabbits come and eat my lawns ? ’ |
| 3 | And ‘ Why ca n't influential people like Mary Whitehouse back things that matter , like Greenpeace ? ’ |
| 4 | Why ca n't small boys be still and good , like your daughter ? ’ |
| 5 | If Nissan can do it , why ca n't other car makers ? |
| 6 | Why ca n't some of these blokes be earning £1 million a year like snooker players ? |
| 7 | Well why ca n't some of our yobbos go away and get jobs elsewhere ! |
| 8 | Why ca n't this Sebastian look after his own dog ? ’ |
| 9 | POSTERS advertising cigarettes are now forced to carry Government health warnings , so why ca n't this good sense extend to adverts for alcoholic drinks ? |
| 10 | Why ca n't this man go off and play with his money elsewhere on a Saturday afternoon ? |
| 11 | Why ca n't Scottish Nuclear pay a bonus when our performance was even better ? |
| 12 | Comments in a personal mini-survey ranged from " I 'm fed up with reading endless puffs for " me too " products " to " why ca n't these people take our readership into account ? " |
| 13 | ‘ Why ca n't these American women stay in their own country ? |
| 14 | Sarella felt him stiffen as if expecting his brother 's anger to turn to blows , but Marc went on rapidly , ‘ Why ca n't any of us talk without it turning into a slanging match ? |
| 15 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
| 16 | Why can not that exceptional expense be met with exceptional funding ? |
| 17 | Why can not that proposal be brought forward , so that the local offices of the Department of Social Security could make the decision about topping-up arrangements ? |
| 18 | There is not enough evidence to decide this issue , but there is enough to be sure what we should feel about the conclusions he draws concerning Othello : One part of this antithesis follows — some men must be servants — but not the other : why can not all masters be served ‘ truly ’ ? |
| 19 | Why can not this country afford social justice when the Governments of Portugal and of Greece have no doubt where the balance lies ? |
| 20 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 21 | Why can not this incompetent Government get their act together and put those building workers to build houses for those families ? |