Example sentences of "it [was/were] not necessary for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't necessary for him to throw the game in order to please the other man — his particular business was a seller 's market . |
| 2 | Ha Well he said he 'd probably get on alright at Horstell that 's the irony of it was n't necessary for him to go to Winston |
| 3 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 4 | The centurion sent word to Jesus that it was not necessary for him to come in person . |
| 5 | Because Carol was n't there , was n't arching her head to see the contents of a letter , it was not necessary for him to take the envelope into his own office . |
| 6 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 7 | For this purpose it was not necessary for me to stay on at school after I was sixteen and attend university . |
| 8 | Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India . |
| 9 | The best known example of this is Liversidge v. Anderson in which the majority of the House of Lords found that the phrase ‘ reasonable cause to believe ’ in wartime emergency legislation would be complied with provided that the Secretary of State acted on what he thought to be such a reasonable cause , and that it was not necessary for there to be objective facts to support this . |