Example sentences of "[adv] why [modal v] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asda sells hi-fis , TVs , videos , alarm clocks and other electrical goods , so why ca n't Sainsbury 's ? ’ |
| 2 | " The Eurasian women are managing all right so why ca n't Miss Hughes ? " |
| 3 | A student spokesman says : ‘ Women show off their bras , so why ca n't men do the same with THEIR underwear ? ’ |
| 4 | Washington , Jefferson and six other Virginians besides have led our nation ; so why should n't President Charles Sherman in about thirty-five years ' time — say round about nineteen sixty — be sitting in the White House ? |
| 5 | Now why could n't Shakespeare have told that , Tolkien must have reflected , instead of bothering with King Lear ! |
| 6 | Well why ca n't Nora walk to it ? |
| 7 | She 's there Why wo n't Lee come over here ? |
| 8 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |