Example sentences of "why [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chettle wins back the header but it 's gone straight to Whitlow Thomson takes over and why not the way he 's played . |
| 2 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 3 | Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ . |
| 4 | But why not the hall for a change ? |
| 5 | Why not the Greuze ? |
| 6 | Why not the triumph of the ordinary ? he wrote . |
| 7 | Why not the rest of us ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If you need an instant military presence , why not the marines ? |
| 9 | If a planet could have its satellites , why not the sun ! |
| 10 | And if a multinational company could be run like this then why not governments , why not the world ? |
| 11 | Why not the Forest of Dean ? |
| 12 | If it is the smoker 's decision , why not the cocaine snorter 's or the heroin injector 's decision ( those ‘ habits ’ probably do not kill 115,000 people per year in the UK alone ) . |
| 13 | Why not the woman in the library |
| 14 | Why not the mother ? |
| 15 | If humans can feel this , then why not the trees themselves ? |
| 16 | Since the world seems to be rerunning the economics and politics of the 1930s why not the films too ? |
| 17 | We sell all sorts of air-freighted fish like joki , so why not the John Dori ? ’ |