Yet in each other Thatcher and Reagan found not merely kindred spirits, but life partners.
The P material is to be found not merely in Leviticus but throughout the Tetrateuch, including the early chapters of Genesis and one of the creation accounts and ranging from the primeval history (Adam to Noah) to the Mosaic era.
Upon arrival, however, we found not merely the big-bore locals but also an American diplomat, not a very senior one, but still exalted enough to allow himself proconsular airs, his staff galloping around him as if he were ordering dispositions in battle, and not merely another whiskey soda.
I arrive towards the end of the editorial meeting, to find Love – not merely fully clothed but beautifully turned-out – regaling the Guardian staff with extraordinary anecdotes in her unmistakable voice: a drawling, heavy-lidded rasp, roughened by cigarettes.
In both novel and film, we are clearly intended to find her not merely funny but also sympathetic, moving and exemplary of our age - as Owen might have said (Deborah Owen, the literary agent, that is, not Wilfred Owen), the poetry is in the self-pity.
You may then find that, not merely do you not have a halo, but what you thought was a halo is being portrayed by your former employer's lawyers as a large, pointy dunce cap.
Thomas Jefferson once asserted that America's republicanism was to be found "Not in the constitution, but merely in the spirit of the people".
Mitchell's movie persuasively finds comedy not merely in the conversation and general panic surrounding sex, but in the acts themselves - and the comedy is not solely in bathos, either, but in its tumescent opposite.
He found himself not merely part of Bacon's court on his noon-to-night jaunts around the fancy restaurants and louche drinking-dens of London but his chief confidant and protege.
