Example sentences of "[not/n't] necessary to " in BNC.

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1 But then an understanding of consciousness , for all its fascination , is not necessary to the production of an adequate model of cognitive behaviour .
2 No one could think that improvement is not necessary to safety , especially in quarrying , construction , diving or works transport .
3 However , it was not necessary to be elusively positive about Hitler or the regime in order to escape the censor 's wrath , and it seems significant , therefore , that many letters home continued to emphasize trust in the Führer , often accompanied by outrightly Nazi sentiments .
4 Codes were certainly necessary ; but North 's more experienced colleagues knew they were not necessary to the degree he insisted upon .
5 Before the development of the bristles themselves , a prepattern arises in the tissue : I imagine this as a series of peaks of concentration of some inducing chemical , arising by a ‘ Turing ’ process , but this is not necessary to Stern 's argument .
6 And remember , it is not necessary to be asleep in order to refresh your mind and body ; you simply need to be mentally and physically relaxed — and there are techniques you can learn to help you achieve this .
7 It seemed to me that she was embarrassed by my family bereavement and felt it was not necessary to be part of it .
8 I was told it was not necessary to be big and hefty to take part as it was often fell runners who did well , wiry types with good strong legs .
9 Whitehead Mann 's prominence shows that it is not necessary to wholly own a large number of overseas offices to gain and handle top assignments successfully ; its membership of the Ward Howell Group covers its international search needs without incurring the capital expenditure and risk that the Big Four have undertaken .
10 I 'm of the opinion that this is not necessary to the extent suggested .
11 It is not necessary to be a veterinary surgeon to become a licensed inseminator , but training is required .
12 It is not necessary to be unduly selective to find indications of pre-velar and pre-nasal raising of /a/ , and polysyllabic lowering of Ε/,; as in present-day Ulster English .
13 But it is not necessary to be a utilitarian to be a reductivist .
14 He submitted that the Norfolk Line Ro-Ro was a bonus , not necessary to the reasonable operation of the port and that an injunction should go , at least to prevent a return to the pre-June 1990 state of affairs .
15 Finally , you should remember that it really is not necessary to totally re-vamp the kitchen or call in a decorator in order to give it a face lift .
16 The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport .
17 ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives .
18 Although non-restrictive adjectives are therefore not necessary to the entity-identification achieved by the phrase of which they form a part , there is no particular mystery about their appearance .
19 we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on
20 ‘ … to discriminate the correct candidate it is not necessary to systematically reduce the cohort to a single member .
21 The purpose of a utilitarian work is the idea of the work whereas everything pertaining to the work which is not necessary to the purpose is expression .
22 Earlier we noted that , in the absence of cost changes , it was not necessary to be able to actually measure the abstract concept of surplus in order to form the conclusion that monopoly would bring about a reduction in it .
23 In English it is not necessary to be able to class a vowel as ( +front , +round ) , whereas this is necessary for French and German ; it could be said that the major task for the learner in this case is to learn the combination of these features , not to learn the individual vowels , and ( in French ) .
24 But these things are not necessary to our salvation .
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