Example sentences of "he not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge him not merely to consider the matter but , because of the strength of feeling shown here , to take action as soon as possible , so that our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West and his family will not have suffered in vain . |
| 2 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 3 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 4 | For had he not already forgotten her ? |
| 5 | After 22 months , does he not yet understand that sitting there crossing his fingers and closing his eyes will not bring recovery ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I challenged the Secretary of State for Health to fill in the form , he not surprisingly refused . |
| 8 | Does he not just see Lapps ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Is he not here to greet us ? ’ |
| 12 | But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Constance and her mum had laughed , so that he not merely feared but hated them . |
| 15 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 16 | In 1827 he not only obliged them to start performing military service but also declared that Jewish recruits were to be enlisted at the age of twelve rather than twenty . |
| 17 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 18 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 19 | It was a fate he not only accepted but embraced . |
| 20 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he not only refuses his tithes but seems to have a source of wealth which enables him to distribute alms , to mend the church as well as have it painted and refurbished . ’ |
| 22 | When the cup-bearer at last remembers Joseph , he not only proves able to explain God 's message , but comes up with a clear-cut plan of action . |
| 23 | He not only received an excellent education at the recently founded Perse School in Cambridge , but afterwards a bursary from the school enabled him to continue his studies in the University at Caius College . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Used to be an engineer in the RFC in the war , so he not only keeps the ship 's stores , but knows everything about motor cars — and ma plane . ’ |
| 26 | Thus , when Le Pen entertained the possibility of the non-existence of the Holocaust , he not only revealed his attitude toward past events but demonstrated his attitude towards the antisemitic conspiracy theory of politics . |
| 27 | According to reports , he not only scored twice , but played very well throughout . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That same day he not only thought we were in Denmark but decided that it was imperative to write three letters to his cousin Marianne in New York — simultaneously ! |
| 30 | He not only added a greater dimension through his excellent , exciting tennis , but also through his personality . |