Example sentences of "he not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For had he not already forgotten her ?
2 After 22 months , does he not yet understand that sitting there crossing his fingers and closing his eyes will not bring recovery ?
3 Before he does so , however , he has a vision of what his life should and would have been had he not voluntarily submitted himself to his final sacrifice .
4 When I challenged the Secretary of State for Health to fill in the form , he not surprisingly refused .
5 Is he , is he not well ?
6 Does he not just see Lapps ?
7 Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ?
8 Was he not also a spoiled man ?
9 In displaying the consistency of involvement and leadership in the Conservative party with regard to Europe , is he not finally giving this country the role that it lost with the empire ?
10 Is he not here to greet us ? ’
11 ‘ Why is he not here at Tara ! ’
12 Dr Gavin Strang , for Labour , demanded : ‘ He was seen in the chamber in the previous division , why is he not here for the debate ? ’
13 Given that he may have fallen victim of an essentialist fallacy , is he not right in asserting that marriage as always understood is a relationship involving a man and a woman , commonly so defined ?
14 But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ?
15 He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city .
16 Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London .
17 If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ?
18 In the first autumn of his premiership he not merely took a leap in the dark but decided upon an expedition into the profound obscurity of political outer space .
19 Constance and her mum had laughed , so that he not merely feared but hated them .
20 He not only added a greater dimension through his excellent , exciting tennis , but also through his personality .
21 He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work .
22 He was doubtless selected because he not only commands a vast classical repertoire , essential for one of the world 's great orchestras , but has also worked hard to popularise modern music .
23 A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years .
24 A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years .
25 He not only transforms sad friend , but maintains my reputation for being a resourceful problem solver .
26 He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall .
27 He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments .
28 I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’
29 He not only informed on fellow-members of the Communist Party in 1934–6 and requested a public session in which to do so ‘ because secrecy serves the Communist cause ’ ; he took a display advertisement in the New York Times to justify himself .
30 Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken .
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