Example sentences of "[adj] need [not/n't] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church . |
| 2 | However , this need not be too serious an objection , and the fact that native speakers seem to think that this transcription fits better with their feelings about the language is a good argument in its favour . |
| 3 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 4 | This need not be so , and the small trouble involved is well worthwhile , for the chance to watch the behaviour , and see the young grow up . |
| 5 | However , I have argued that this need not be so ; the classical perspective , in the basic form laid down by Beccaria , has much greater potential than has been exploited so far . |
| 6 | The charismatic movement did in places cause division and provoke suspicion , especially in its early days , but it is my settled conviction , and my experience , that this need not be so , and that the Spirit of unity would have it otherwise . |
| 7 | Making the intangible tangible need not be too difficult . |