Example sentences of "[not/n't] need to be " in BNC.
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| 61 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 62 | If a vehicle needs to be temporarily substituted for one of the operator 's authorized vehicles or a vehicle needs to be transferred from one operating centre to another the LA does not need to be informed . |
| 63 | This is wider in meaning than ‘ motor vehicle ’ as ‘ vehicles ’ do not need to be mechanically propelled . |
| 64 | Provided the defendant consents to the test or inspection the person examining the brakes ( usually a constable ) does not need to be an authorised examiner . |
| 65 | Rough notes may be entered and do not need to be attached to the semantic net . |
| 66 | All women , including those who find street remarks ‘ flattering ’ , are aware of being watched and assessed in a way men are not , and it makes women self-conscious in a way men do not need to be . |
| 67 | Since the abalone is rather like a large snail in having a protruding ‘ foot ’ , it does not need to be opened in the same way as a mussel for the otter to eat it . |
| 68 | Torture does not need to be a male preserve , she says . |
| 69 | They are poor climbers but since there are no predators in the tree tops , they do not need to be particularly agile . |
| 70 | You do not need to be a dressmaker to use the cut and sew method , although using sewing machine speeds things up . |
| 71 | He simply does not need to be loved , apparently , whether by his relatives or anyone else ; he does not even , at all reliably , want it . |
| 72 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 73 | I use 200lb Bockingford watercolour paper , which does not need to be stretched beforehand . |
| 74 | When we celebrate the covenant the bride does not need to be represented sacramentally — the assembly is there in reality — but Christ as bridegroom , Christ ‘ for us ’ , is represented by a man ’ . |
| 75 | Secondly , production of the language does not need to be taught : it emerges itself in time , through the understanding . |
| 76 | Designed to be a complete teaching package , Fanfare does not need to be supplemented by any additional material . |
| 77 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 78 | You do not need to be an accountant to know that once you stop earning your income will drop . |
| 79 | Contrary to what some people believe , you do not need to be very rich ; nor for that matter is it too late to start thinking about investing once you are over the age of 55 . |
| 80 | And like traditional psychology , feminist psychology tends to give socialization accounts only of homosexuality , as if heterosexuality is inborn and does not need to be learned ( Morin 1977 , Furnell 1986 ) . |
| 81 | Inflation was comparatively low and the licence fee , swelled by the increasing income from the separate TV licence , did not need to be raised often in order to provide an adequate income . |
| 82 | Any woman in the early 1970s did not need to be very observant to notice that there were serious dangers of being discredited by name in the media . |
| 83 | There was no need to say ‘ a ’ ball , ‘ a ’ window , since the researcher was looking at them too and so they were , in common to both viewers , ‘ the ’ ball , ‘ the ’ window , Were researcher and student both watching an actual event in which someone kicked a ball through a window ; the use of ‘ the ’ would be obvious and the ‘ frame ’ as it were would not need to be drawn . |
| 84 | When a colour-blind man wants to become a truck driver , he fails at a colour test : his DNA does not need to be tested . |
| 85 | The crucial difference between special interest , or special damage , and genuine grievance was that a special interest was one greater than that of other affected people generally , whereas a genuine grievance did not need to be any different in type or intensity than that of other affected persons . |
| 86 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 87 | From this point of view at least the actions of the young do not need to be romanticised . |
| 88 | Readers will not need to be enlightened concerning performance standards for these are , as usual , commendably high . |
| 89 | We do not need to be told that the factory girls were probably doing their best to make sure that it was impossible for her to pass without brushing against them , and that this would be construed as an insult . |
| 90 | In any case , Morrison 's narrative of violent neighbourhood rivalries , robberies and attacks on policemen — ‘ for kicking practice ’ as he put it — did not need to be either borrowed or invented in late nineteenth-century London . |