Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] necessarily [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |
| 2 | Russia 's Poles were not necessarily a military asset . |
| 3 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the workmen were not necessarily the hapless victims of exploitation . |
| 5 | What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same . |
| 6 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 7 | Very very few girls kissed , and the ones that did were n't necessarily the best kissers . |
| 8 | I tried to make her understand that kids were n't necessarily the key to happiness . |
| 9 | The views of the tutors at the agricultural college were n't necessarily the same as the stern-looking old man 's , and he did n't know enough about anything to enter into an argument . |
| 10 | One had the reputation of being always drunk , and the other was a Scotsman , which was not necessarily a different thing . |
| 11 | first , the failure of Robinson 's ( 1955 ) study to reveal an effect was not necessarily a consequence of the test procedure as DeRivera ( 1959 ) , who used stimuli and a pre-training procedure closely similar to those used by Robinson , was similarly unable to find an effect on test in spite of using a test procedure that required further associative learning . |
| 12 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 13 | Naturally , her tennis and school regimes changed also , although as she sees it , this was not necessarily a bad thing ! |
| 14 | It was not necessarily a kindly mood — the number of types of crimes that carried the death penalty went up steadily in the early eighteenth century — but it was practical rather than cruel . |
| 15 | Protectionism it seemed , was not necessarily a hindrance and could even be a help in the transformation of an economy . |
| 16 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 17 | It was not necessarily a world of fantasy . |
| 18 | The accord followed a decision reached in July by the European Court of Justice that waste was not necessarily a " commercial good " , and could thus be exempted from the principle of free movement of such goods , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 19 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 20 | In the fluid political context , nationalism was not necessarily an overriding objective , but a tentative foray , a provisional objective that , in the right circumstances , might be relinquished . |
| 21 | Youthful Roy Jenkins was recommended to fight the Hillhead election for the SDP and a judge proved that youth was not necessarily an advantage by deciding that a 17-year-old girl , a victim of rape , was guilty of contributory negligence by thumbing a lift at night . |
| 22 | Such alienation from official institutions is common to many societies with isolated peasant populations ; it was not necessarily an outgrowth of colonialism . |
| 23 | While Tikhii said that the effect of radiation on animals was not necessarily an indication of the likely effects on humans , he claimed that the results warranted detailed investigation . |
| 24 | In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization . |
| 25 | As Benn 's frustration indicates , the ‘ public good ’ which the BBC considered itself to be serving was not necessarily the same as that defined by government . |
| 26 | The appointment of Le Bas was not only surprising but also , in some ways , unfortunate in that the tutor 's view of life was informed by a vision of austere republican virtue , which was not necessarily the best philosophical base for approaching a sensitive child of twelve . |
| 27 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 28 | The main problem was not necessarily the number of matches played , though winners Namibia and runners-up Hong Kong had to play eleven games each , mostly under the hot glare of the Sicilian sun . |
| 29 | Barbara caught the possible implication at once , that what James said was not necessarily the same as what James did . |
| 30 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |