Example sentences of "need [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , impartiality need not be expressed quite so crudely , and a look at any group 's case load will show that a balance is always maintained . |
| 2 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 3 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 4 | But a tutorial need not be directly connected with a production in rehearsal . |
| 5 | The unit allows messages of up to 55 characters to be printed and has a repeat function which means repetitive text need not be re-keyed . |
| 6 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 7 | The dry-assembly need not be cramped tight , but the wet one obviously must . |
| 8 | The total number of turns need not be exact but will be around 170 . |
| 9 | Note that the three gates constituting the oscillator itself need not be exclusive-OR types — you can use any cmos inverter . |
| 10 | The critical reader of a poem needs to have some idea of what a poem is , which need not be a theoretically sophisticated idea , and some acquaintance with poetry already . |
| 11 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 12 | Objection within section 102(2) ( d ) was unqualified , and need not be buttressed by a promise to make a submission of ‘ no case to answer ’ . |
| 13 | It need not be if the authorities do not acknowledge a responsibility for control of inflation or if they believe that exchange rates ( just like changes in wage rates , or indirect taxes ) do not influence inflation but rather have their effect on relative prices . |
| 14 | The vice-chancellors should enlist its support , but the universities must first have a clear view of what is needed in the future , and the model need not be uniform . |
| 15 | Perceptions need not be strictly accurate . |
| 16 | Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King . |
| 17 | All these examples enabled Marx to show that the relations between those involved in the process of production can be extremely varied and need not be the depersonalized capitalist ones . |
| 18 | As to truth and beauty — the truth can doubtless be beautiful , though it need not be . |
| 19 | They are black so they need not be treated even like women , but more like animals . |
| 20 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 21 | And even if errors could be assessed satisfactorily , there need not be any clear link between full-blown errors or accidents and a performance that is generally sub-standard — as any self-critical driver knows . |
| 22 | These roles need not be a burden if they were divided up between more people . |
| 23 | Too late did he realize , as he later acknowledged , that he had been ‘ lured by the apparent security of our trade with America and other countries into feeling that change and progress need not be too seriously contemplated . ’ |
| 24 | Authorities have begun to find that multi-agency cooperation in other fields — notably racial violence — need not be a mask for police interference . |
| 25 | Supervision need not be so intense . |
| 26 | You need not be a member , nor be a youth : Youth Hostels are open to anyone and provide a countrywide network of cheap accommodation which is warm and comfortable . |
| 27 | Although the idea of cooking with Parma ham sounds prohibitively expensive , it need not be so . |
| 28 | The numbers of cetaceans caught in gill-nets through incidental catch need not be large to severely affect some species , nor are catches confined to developing countries . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , it is all too obvious that voluntary agreements among small groups need not be efficient : when the numbers are small , markets are prone to fail . |
| 30 | That hierarchy need not be cosily ensconced at headquarters : it can be the sort of decentralised management network beloved of management gurus such as Mr Tom Peters . |