Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It may be possible , hypothetically , to imagine a use of a small nuclear explosion in a remote region in a way that does not necessarily involve indiscriminate harm to the civilian population or long-term damage to the natural environment .
32 According to her , aggression ‘ involves the intention to hurt or emerge superior to others , does not necessarily involve physical injury ( violence ) and may or may not be regarded as being underpinned by different kinds of motives ’ .
33 Such pressure was important , since it was apparent that some of the officers within Area Working Party were satisfied with the production of ‘ sliced bread statements ’ : manifestos of intent which did not necessarily carry any promise of implementation .
34 Such information may not necessarily carry any security classification within the Service , but may simply reveal dispositions , working arrangements etc .
35 Quibbles over ceremonial therefore did not necessarily impede effective contact and negotiation between states .
36 However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas .
37 Merger and acquisition do not necessarily produce rational reconstruction on divisional lines but can produce conflicting authority structures based on disparate organization cultures and systems resistant to the new locus of control .
38 But grand designs did not necessarily produce great architecture .
39 Would my right , would my right honourable friend agree that the use of American and French and British planes to bomb the hills around Sarajevo may not necessarily produce lasting peace in Bosnia and would he further agree that if the idea is to achieve a demilitarised zone , policed effectively around Sarajevo then the best chances of so doing are by ensuring that Russian soldier in United Nations uniforms , in integrated units with British and French forces so help in the policing of that zone .
40 Hybrid vines do not necessarily produce inferior wine .
41 Although you may have access to the package module , this does not necessarily imply automatic access to all the modules contained in the package .
42 Although you may have access to the package module , this does not necessarily imply automatic access to all the modules contained in the package .
43 Although you may have access to the package module , this does not necessarily imply automatic access to all the modules contained in the package .
44 Although you may have access to the package module , this does not necessarily imply automatic access to all the modules contained in the package .
45 Although you may have access to the package module , this does not necessarily imply automatic access to all the modules contained in the package .
46 It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " .
47 The presence of a sewer does not necessarily imply that connection is possible .
48 Commerce can be seen to be more closely regulated from the late seventh and eighth centuries onwards in the form of manufacturing and trading centres ( Hodges 1982a ) , although these certainly do not necessarily imply free trade ; in fact , quite the opposite , for the evidence from Saxon Southampton , Hamwic , indicates that the craftsman there were as tied and organised as the rural ‘ peasantry ’ .
49 He then admits that the result of any conflict , though it may be intelligible , may not necessarily imply any progress .
50 Competition and struggle may be the watchwords but this does not necessarily imply outright hostility .
51 Such an awareness does not necessarily imply theoretical sophistication in linguistics , or an ability to analyze sentences into themes , rhemes , and focally marked or unmarked elements .
52 Being with peers and friends does not necessarily solve this feeling of loneliness .
53 But psychological research seems to indicate that they do not necessarily cancel each other out .
54 This is not to say , of course , that there is no relationship at all between reading and spelling : but it does seem that teaching phonics may not necessarily have much effect on spelling ability .
55 An increase in money supply will not necessarily have much effect on spending ; instead people may simply increase their holdings of idle speculative balances , with a corresponding decline in the speed with which money circulates ( V ) .
56 Yet another type of vocabulary can have difference in meaning for patient and nurse and thereby give rise to difficulties — words describing parts of the body , though having a particular anatomical reference , do not necessarily have that reference for lay people , even intelligent lay people .
57 Hotels taking part need not necessarily have computerised property management systems — a facsimile machine can be used as the link .
58 Ordinands do not necessarily have more imagination than others .
59 Both of these will obviously know their picas from their points but do not necessarily have any experience with the Macintosh ( or any other computer system , come to that ) .
60 Notice that appraisal , stimulated by new ideas , does not necessarily undermine conventional assumption It may indeed confirm them .
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