Example sentences of "was not necessarily " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The advice that came out of those cosy talks , however , was not necessarily heeded . |
| 3 | Lord Callaghan , when he was Prime Minister , made the point that he was not necessarily going to be merely the post box in the system . |
| 4 | His tendency to stand his ground was not necessarily sensible , he reflected . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |
| 8 | Alleged perpetrators usually denied allegations but even when admission was forthcoming full personal responsibility for events was not necessarily accepted by the perpetrator who might allege that he was provoked . |
| 9 | One had the reputation of being always drunk , and the other was a Scotsman , which was not necessarily a different thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , the act of dedicating a portrait and describing its subject on an accompanying inscription was not necessarily initiated by the emperor . |
| 14 | The locally stable strategy in any particular part of the trench lines was not necessarily Tit for Tat itself . |
| 15 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 16 | The skilled man was one who had acquired ‘ a general use of the tools employed in his trade ’ ( even though this was not necessarily of use to his employer ) which would give him ‘ adaptability ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 19 | A lack of isobars however was not necessarily good as it could indicate an area of high pressure , and in winter this usually meant fog . |
| 20 | The best time to see the Lakes he felt was not necessarily high summer , and he recommended people to come at all times of the year so that they might appreciate the great torrents of water after rain and misty light on cloudy days . |
| 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 | He was not necessarily landless : he seems often to have been a smallholder , with land insufficient of itself to support him . |
| 23 | The factory was not necessarily more efficient than the home-based weaver . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Such alienation from official institutions is common to many societies with isolated peasant populations ; it was not necessarily an outgrowth of colonialism . |
| 26 | Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong . |
| 27 | This assumption was not necessarily justified , for the feud may have been a motive for the theft , or it may have determined whom the complainant decided to accuse in a case of real theft when the thieves were unknown . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified . |
| 30 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |