Example sentences of "not necessarily a " in BNC.

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1 Excellence is not necessarily a criterion for including a picture or a sculpture in a chronological survey .
2 The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches .
3 Could that mean a great view , but not necessarily a great approach walk ?
4 Fitting replacement windows is not necessarily a job for a professional builder .
5 You see he was a hero , a social hero , a small guy , a fall guy , not necessarily a brave or courageous guy , usually the opposite .
6 But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode .
7 A quiet life is not necessarily a rewarding life .
8 Home burial is not necessarily a practical option available to all pet owners .
9 A horse lacking in sensory stimulation ( not necessarily a need to chase or chew cows ! ) is likely to become very depressed or anxious , will possibly go off its food , and even become ill .
10 The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use .
11 One had the reputation of being always drunk , and the other was a Scotsman , which was not necessarily a different thing .
12 Competition for a female or other sex object may not produce the same hierarchy as that for food , simply because a sexually aroused animal , say , is not necessarily a hungry one .
13 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 .
14 Being big is not necessarily a good thing : most organisms are bacteria and very few are elephants .
15 ( Not necessarily a good thing as McCullouch , esoteric as always , often attached a McCullouch stigma to his favoured acts .
16 A change of bit ( not necessarily a stronger one ) often works wonders and this combined with correct suppling work can transform the way of going of many horses .
17 This is not necessarily a recipe for despair , however .
18 ( It should be noted that past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future . )
19 Please remember though that past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future .
20 Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance .
21 Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance .
22 Use is not necessarily a major factor , and Peasgood 's article describing changes in allocations between faculties according to past use probably reflects the exception rather than the rule .
23 For instance , a book issued is not necessarily a book read , and a book read has not ( as discussed above ) necessarily given its reader what he or she wanted .
24 Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward .
25 It is not necessarily a sign that a child is especially aggressive .
26 Pearce ( 1988 ) , writing about the use of touch in an intensive care unit , differentiates between instrumental touch ( deliberate , physical contact needed to perform a specific task such as washing a patient or dressing a wound ) and expressive touch ( a relatively spontaneous and affective contact which is not necessarily a component of a physical task , such as holding a patient 's hand during a painful procedure ) .
27 Complete freedom is not necessarily a good thing , as the newly retired often discover , nor is it easy to use effectively .
28 Boundedness is not necessarily a quality of the process of institution itself : the same process or institution will not be beyond the boundary to those who are a part of it ; to them , it will be a part of everyday experience , while to others , not a part of it , it will be beyond the boundaries of home-ground .
29 The trouble with all these lines is that when you get to a length exceeding about fifty miles ( 80km ) , the curvature of the Earth begins to become significant : a straight line on the map is not necessarily a straight line on the ground .
30 Masochism is a defence against unacknowledged sadism and masochists will , in the terms of the unconscious ‘ fit ’ between partners , tend to marry not necessarily a conscious sadist , but often one who helps them to maintain a masochistic role .
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