Example sentences of "why [verb] [pron] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ?
2 Why has she not spoken long ago in the right quarter ?
3 ‘ If he knows , why has he not moved ? ’
4 If , as Mr Bush indicated in his letter , he knew in October of Mr Frohnmayer 's ‘ wish to step aside ’ , why has he not nominated a successor ?
5 He has increased funds to the Arts Council , so why has he not unfrozen the acquisition grants ?
6 So why has it not led to a rise in conviction rates ?
7 Why has it not come ?
8 Why has it not caught on ?
9 The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) .
10 Why did we not get but I wan na do that part !
11 Why did we not buy another younger centre half ?
12 Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? )
13 Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ?
14 Why did they not give her toys to play with ?
15 Why did they not interfere with catapults ? — these did more injury than other weapons . ’
16 If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ?
17 Why did they not act boldly like the Russians ?
18 For the lord 's sake , then , why did they not put in some repairs ?
19 Why did they not receive greater support ?
20 Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ?
21 Then why did she not agree to it ?
22 But why did she not write ?
23 Why did I not think of that , then ?
24 Even so , you will wonder , why did I not respond ?
25 Why did I not die there and then ?
26 Why did you not stop me ? ’
27 Why did you not do any actions ?
28 And why did you not do your actions ?
29 Why did you not go to the feast ? ’
30 Why did you not go before we came ? ’
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