Example sentences of "need not [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cnut 's supremacy over part of Sweden may be obscure ; it need not have been ineffective . |
| 2 | Such thoughts went with an idea of progress , at least in the past ; but such progress need not have been smooth , for the various faunas could easily have been destroyed and replaced in a series of catastrophes . |
| 3 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 4 | However , if what has happened is that the person has Taken the Side of the Other , then there need not have been attitude-change in the traditional sense . |
| 5 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 6 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 7 | When Alice was sixteen her mother , angry with her about something , said in a fury , ‘ You need n't think being good looking is going to be an advantage in life . |
| 8 | She need n't have been afraid ; Roman drove quickly and smoothly , without speaking a word . |