Example sentences of "need [not/n't] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the message ‘ defeatists ’ need not apply' is worth making loud and clear ! |
| 2 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 3 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 4 | To qualify in this last category a dependant need not have been related to the deceased , and thus a mistress would be included . |
| 5 | Famous ministers , like most of those who are well paid , tended to be defensive of their income : Newman Hall was very loath to talk about his £500 a year although he need not have been . |
| 6 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 7 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 8 | The annexe need not have been roofed , although there was access to it from the main part of the building . |
| 9 | Although such twins , as we have seen , were often arch-enemies , they need not have been , Often , they complemented each other peaceably to form a single unity . |
| 10 | However , if what has happened is that the person has Taken the Side of the Other , then there need not have been attitude-change in the traditional sense . |
| 11 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 12 | Thus , all in all , a fall in the price of holidays would probably have emerged in 1986 largely because of these changes in underlying economic conditions , and need not have been accompanied by the razzmatazz of a full-blooded price war . |
| 13 | In other words , the difference between ( i ) incitement and ( ii ) being a participant in a crime as one who has counselled or procured it is that in ( i ) the main crime has not been ( or need not have been ) committed by the person so incited , and in ( ii ) it has . |
| 14 | Such thoughts went with an idea of progress , at least in the past ; but such progress need not have been smooth , for the various faunas could easily have been destroyed and replaced in a series of catastrophes . |
| 15 | Imitation need not have been the only process at work . |
| 16 | The decrease need not have been distributed uniformly along the radius . |
| 17 | It is important to remember , though , that the production need not have been a full-time or permanent occupation , nor necessarily an urban-based activity , as the much wider pattern of small- and large-scale production demonstrates . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah , but you need not have been an outcast , ’ shrewdly guessed the old lady . |
| 19 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 20 | Cnut 's supremacy over part of Sweden may be obscure ; it need not have been ineffective . |
| 21 | If it did sail against him , Cnut presumably took appropriate measures , and contrary winds need not have been the only force responsible for its repulse . |
| 22 | Moreover , the Winchester crown need not have been the only one that Cnut gave away , as Christ Church Canterbury seems also to have received one . |
| 23 | A Notice under s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 need not have been served and the lessor may rely simply on his right of re-entry , assuming such be contained in the lease or tenancy agreement . |
| 24 | Variables included in the parameter list need not have been declared before the CALL statement . |
| 25 | As shown , the inversion breakpoint which disrupted the duplicated region coincides with a boundary of the cluster duplication event , but this need not have been the case . |
| 26 | Brian felt that sleep need not have been too much of a problem : he could go to sleep , but the staff would not let him . |
| 27 | When Alice was sixteen her mother , angry with her about something , said in a fury , ‘ You need n't think being good looking is going to be an advantage in life . |
| 28 | It need n't have been my fare at all . ’ |
| 29 | But the doctrine of the extended phenotype has taught us that it need n't have been so . |
| 30 | ‘ That need n't have been , Aggie . |