Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 It is just possible that d'Ohsson means Molla Fenari , whom he does not otherwise mention ; but even the earliest possible date for Molla Fenari 's becoming Multi , roughly 1380 , is too late to allow for any possibility of his having succeeded Tursun Fakih .
32 It is significant that in his affidavit evidence the debtor criticises the quality of the advice he received , but he does not otherwise query the reasonableness of the charges .
33 He does not entirely explain how so many people could lift off so quickly into the deal-making stratosphere .
34 In general , a potential X does not have all the rights of an X. Prince Charles is a potential King of England , but he does not now have the rights of a king .
35 Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker has said he does not now believe it would be right to continue with the proposed closures because of the entirely unacceptable numbers of prisoners held in police cells .
36 When Lacan speaks of the Other , he does not only mean the world of concrete others , but indicates an outside symbolic field of language which we are inserted into .
37 He does not only improve himself and his estate , but his servants too , as Harriet remarks :
38 It is not always understood that he does not only help her but has frequently to lead her into a movement .
39 Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody .
40 He does not actually forbid remarriage for those whose partner has died , but his view seems to be that this is not God 's purpose for marriage .
41 This point emerged in a 1986 case in which the High Court accepted that a person seeking a job relies on the accuracy of a reference about his character and capabilities even if he does not actually ask for it himself .
42 After all , he does not actually seek the result to which the polls have been pointing since the election campaign began .
43 Not with a view to conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels , but as a matter of fact , the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book .
44 If he does not so agree , then the Precedents in Chapters 3 and 4 are appropriate , and it is up to the wife to make a further conveyance or deed of gift once the property is vested in herself alone .
45 But , in fact , he does not quite say this .
46 What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is .
47 He does not quite understand why the coats are familiar .
48 Shostakovich himself declared that he wanted to write a ‘ happy ’ Symphony , but somehow he does not quite seem the natural choice for such a thing .
49 Although he does not quite dare to say it , he wants the entire ERM to dissolve .
50 He does not quite know how to ask .
51 He does not often think of himself as English , but of course he is .
52 Surely he does not seriously think that appeasement will stop the IRA attacks or the cries of discrimination .
53 The question which next arises is whether the doctor , while prohibited from doing anything deliberately aimed at causing the death of his patient , may so adjust the treatment that he does not actively intervene and the patient dies .
54 He does not usually do so unless he or a section of the public which he represents has some special interest to protect , in enforcing that particular law , that is not shared by the public at large .
55 Ethnocide or something approaching it revolts him , but he does not usually wish to champion the preservation of cultures simply as museum pieces .
56 He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet .
57 He does not greatly care for it , but I need its solitude if I am to accomplish what I am about . ’
58 The witness attests his own experience : he does not necessarily preach .
59 When the skilled manager encounters what , on the face of it , is an intolerable set of work practices , attitudes and performance he does not necessarily take drastic action , he identifies the natural processes of change and accelerates them .
60 The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised .
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