Example sentences of "why [modal v] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if he seeks to deploy fewer warheads per boat than the maximum possible , why should not other countries follow his example and say that that is also their ideal of a minimum deterrent ? |
| 2 | It is scarcely possible , in the face of this legislation , to maintain that ‘ rights ’ are a privilege with which none but human beings can be invested ; for if some animals are already included within the pale of protection , why should not more and more be so included in the future ? ( 1922 : 5 ) |
| 3 | Such practices do undoubtedly maintain local unemployment at relatively low levels and ensure the continuation of basic public services , but why could not such funds be utilised in a more productive and socially satisfactory way ? |
| 4 | Why could not Æthelred have brought the enemy to battle with a national army at his back , as Alfred did many times , as Æthelstan did to gain his great victory at Brunanburh in 937 , as King Harold Godwinsson did in 1066 , and , most significantly of all , as Æthelred 's own son did in 1016 ? |
| 5 | Science had guided the USA in ‘ conquering ’ nature ; so why could not scientific method help it control international society ? |
| 6 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
| 7 | Why can not that exceptional expense be met with exceptional funding ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ ? |
| 10 | Why can not this country afford social justice when the Governments of Portugal and of Greece have no doubt where the balance lies ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Why can not this incompetent Government get their act together and put those building workers to build houses for those families ? |