Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] need not be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A number of American cases ruled that reassignment need not be made where the disabled employee had insufficient seniority under local union agreements or where collective bargaining had established job-related standards for the reassigned position which the disabled employee could not meet .
2 To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense .
3 This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement .
4 But Wordsworth does not use any dialect expression , so that this difficulty need not be exaggerated .
5 Accordingly , social policy need not be interpreted in terms either of the continuous evolution of a welfare state inspired by humanitarian ideals or of a conspiracy to manipulate a powerless proletariat .
6 They will know that their maturing children need not be committed to anything that they will not be free to abandon in later life if they so wish .
7 If Auburn is a dream of an ideal countryside , that dream need not be taken solely as a retreat from history but as an image of social possibility .
8 The League 's attitude reflected the traditional belief that the ordinary citizen need not be affected by war .
9 Apparently the dualistic phenomenon of a body of commercial law separate from civil law need not be reinstated .
10 Such consent need not be expressed but can be implied by conduct depending upon the circumstances ( see Bilbrough v Holmes [ 1876 ] 5 Ch D 255 ) .
11 However , the first process is strictly less deterministic than the second : it is not obliged to terminate successfully ; when composed in sequence with another process the second process need not be started .
12 He appears to have occupied a middle position , holding that while Gentile Christians need not be circumcised or keep traditional Jewish festivals , they should respect Jewish food laws .
13 Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective .
14 Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective .
15 The probability of the happening of such events need not be measured , for the court does not inquire as to the adequacy of consideration .
16 And she understood that authentic decor need not be confined to the country mansion ; the whole idea was to bring good design down to the lowest levels , ’ Jane Clifford said .
17 Placing individuals in the categories " male " or " female " , " working class " or " middle class " are cases in point , though nominal scales need not be restricted to dichotomies .
18 But this natural religion need not be grounded specifically upon the authority of the Bible or the Christian tradition , though it might allow these a place .
19 Anthropological analysis need not be seen as the attempt to discover the truth about primitive societies , but instead as the attempt to ‘ translate ’ ( or transform ) the utterances from one discursive context to another .
20 These records need not be held in this ‘ logical ’ sequence ( see Figure 5.9(c) ) , as long as the files are held on direct access storage devices .
21 Private nuisance need not be based on an unlawful act .
22 Unoccupied offices and meeting rooms left unused for long periods need not be heated to the normal level .
23 These punctilios , which help to moderate tempers and maintain the dignity of the courts , are admirable if not carried too far ; but legal writings need not be encumbered in this way .
24 If the monopolist 's position is naturally precarious , that is if there are many potential entrepreneurs looking to supply papers , then its pricing behaviour may well be tempered , so governmental intervention need not be required .
25 But preferred shares do not guarantee to deliver the dividend payment , and a preferred dividend need not be paid if the firm 's earnings are insufficient to fund it .
26 This complex statement need not be analysed here but just think how often we see a certain politician , good though he may be , declared as " never coming across on the TV " .
27 In the process of definition the subdivisions of the gentry are shown to have been as numerous as those of the peerage ( which for the present purpose need not be set out in detail ) , and noticeably more complex .
28 Traditionally pioneers in agriculture , these were the families which at the beginning of the nineteenth century concluded that the making of good cheese need not be confined to the high alpine dairies as was then generally accepted , but could be practised in the rich pasturelands of the Mittelland .
29 The dyadic sign need not be endowed with any unitary significance , or be regarded as a newly constructed compound of previously mastered components .
30 This is probably correct , but conventional medical wisdom need not be accepted entirely at face value .
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